Error awareness revisited: Accumulation of multimodal evidence from central and autonomic nervous systems

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3021-3036

  Wessel, Jan R ^a   Danielmeier, Claudia ^a   Ullsperger, Markus ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR AWARENESS; ERROR POSITIVITY; ERROR RELATED NEGATIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPILLOMETRY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUPIL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860389746     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21635     Document Type: Article

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