Electrophysiological precursors of social conformity

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 756-763

  Shestakova, Anna ^a,b   Rieskamp, Jörg ^c   Tugin, Sergey ^a   Ossadtchi, Alexey ^a,d   Krutitskaya, Janina ^a   Klucharev, Vasily ^c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Conformity; Feedback related negativity (FRN); Medial frontal cortex; Reinforcement learning; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONFORMITY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDBACK-RELATED NEGATIVITY (FRN); FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

CONFORMITY; FEEDBACK-RELATED NEGATIVITY (FRN); MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885783283     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss064     Document Type: Article

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