To PE or not to PE: A P3-like ERP component reflecting the processing of response errors

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 531-538

  Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Ramautar, Jennifer R ^b   Wijnen, Jasper G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Error processing; Motivational significance; P3; PE

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ODDBALL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SIMON TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 64049111099     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00790.x     Document Type: Article

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