Enhanced error-related negativity on flanker errors: Error expectancy or error significance?

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 899-908

  Maier, Martin E ^a,b   Di Pellegrino, Giuseppe ^a,b   Steinhauser, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Error related negativity; Event related potentials; Performance monitoring; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862329678     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01373.x     Document Type: Article

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