Anxiety disrupts the evaluative component of performance monitoring: An ERP study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1286-1296

  Aarts, Kristien ^a   Pourtois, Gilles ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attribution; ERP; FRN; N170

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK RELATED NEGATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861221192     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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