Absorbed in the task: Personality measures predict engagement during task performance as tracked by error negativity and asymmetrical frontal activity

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-453

  Tops, Mattie ^a,b,c   Boksem, Maarten A S ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LINEAR MODELS; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79751497309     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.10.4.441     Document Type: Article

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