The ERN is the ERN is the ERN? Convergent validity of error-related brain activity across different tasks

Biological Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 377-385

  Riesel, Anja ^a,b   Weinberg, Anna ^b   Endrass, Tanja ^a   Meyer, Alexandria ^b   Hajcak, Greg ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Discriminant validity; ERN; Error positivity; Error related negativity; Pe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR RELATED EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FLANKER TEST; GO NO GO TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877907842     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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