Dissociable correlates of response conflict and error awareness in error-related brain activity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 405-415

  Hughes, Gethin ^a   Yeung, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); Error positivity (Pe); Error signalling; Error related negativity (ERN); Response dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551471670     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.036     Document Type: Article

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