Medial frontal event-related potentials and reward prediction: Do responses matter?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 128-134

  Martin, Laura E ^a   Potts, Geoffrey F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; MFN; Reward prediction error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051676162     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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