Why do we produce errors of commission? An ERP study of stimulus deviance detection and error monitoring in a choice go/no-go task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1960-1968

  Elton, Martin ^a   Spaan, Marcus ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Error negativity; Error positivity; Error related negativity; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 8144223192     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03631.x     Document Type: Article

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