Surprise and error: Common neuronal architecture for the processing of errors and novelty

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7528-7537

  Wessel, Jan R ^a,b   Danielmeier, Claudia ^c   Bruce Morton, J ^d   Ullsperger, Markus ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861595450     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6352-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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