Your conflict matters to me! Behavioral and neural manifestations of control adjustment after self-experienced and observed decision-conflict

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2009, Pages

  Winkel, Jasper ^a   Wijnen, Jasper G ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Groen, Iris I A ^a   Derrfuss, Jan ^b   Danielmeier, Claudia ^b   Forstmann, Birte U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict adaptation; Event related potentials; Gratton effect; N2; Observed conflict; Simon task; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255212241     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.057.2009     Document Type: Article

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