Reward and punishment effects on error processing and conflict control

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Stürmer, Birgit ^a   Nigbur, Roland ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^b   Sommer, Werner ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict adaptation; Error processing; Error related negativity; Event related brain potentials; Punishment; Reinforcement; Reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861967032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00335     Document Type: Article

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