Punishment has a lasting impact on error-related brain activity

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 239-247

  Riesel, Anja ^a,b   Weinberg, Anna ^a   Endrass, Tanja ^b   Kathmann, Norbert ^b   Hajcak, Greg ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioning; Error processing; Error related negativity; Punishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856109030     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01298.x     Document Type: Article

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