Performance monitoring following conflict: Internal adjustments in cognitive control?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 426-433

  Larson, Michael J ^a   Clayson, Peter E ^a   Baldwin, Scott A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); Cognitive control; Conflict adaptation; Error related negativity (ERN); Event related potentials (ERPs); N2

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFLICT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING THEORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84856057807     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.12.021     Document Type: Article

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