Mediofrontal event-related potentials following observed actions reflect an action prediction error

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1435-1440

  Kobza, Stefan ^a   Bellebaum, Christian ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Expectation; Observation; OERN; Performance monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER ERROR RELATED NEGATIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; THINKING;

EID: 84877586324     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12138     Document Type: Article

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