Subthreshold muscle twitches dissociate oscillatory neural signatures of conflicts from errors

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 503-513

  Cohen, Michael X ^a,b   van Gaal, Simon ^a,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d NeuroSpin   (France)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Connectivity; EEG; Errors; Medial frontal cortex; Oscillations; Partial errors; Theta; Time frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; MUSCLE TWITCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE MONITORING; PARIETAL CORTEX; THUMB;

COGNITIVE CONTROL; CONNECTIVITY; EEG; ERRORS; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; OSCILLATIONS; PARTIAL ERRORS; THETA; TIME-FREQUENCY;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891555814     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.033     Document Type: Article

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