How large the sin? A study of the event related potentials elicited by errors of varying magnitude

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1611-1620

  Arbel, Yael ^a   Donchin, Emanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERN; Error processing; PCA; Pe

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755152826     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01264.x     Document Type: Article

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