Is the error-related negativity amplitude related to error detectability? Evidence from effects of different error types

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2263-2273

  Maier, Martin ^a   Steinhauser, Marco ^a   Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56649093036     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20159     Document Type: Article

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