Errors without conflict: Implications for performance monitoring theories of anterior cingulate cortex

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 56, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 267-276

  Van Veen, Vincent ^a   Holroyd, Clay B ^b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b   Stenger, V Andrew ^a   Carter, Cameron S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Attention; Errors; Executive control; Feedback; Frontal lobes; Functional MRI; Performance monitoring; Stroop interference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 7044253460     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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