Error-related brain activity and adjustments of selective attention following errors

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2339-2347

  Maier, Martin E ^a,c,d   Yeung, Nick ^b   Steinhauser, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioral adjustments; Error processing; Error related negativity; Event related potentials; Performance monitoring; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR RELATED NEGATIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957517678     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.083     Document Type: Article

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