Individual differences in response speed and accuracy are associated to specific brain activities of two interacting systems

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Perri, Rinaldo Livio ^a,b   Berchicci, Marika ^a   Spinelli, Donatella ^a,c   Di Russo, Francesco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bereitschaftspotential (BP); Decision making; EEG; Event related potentials (ERPs); Movement related cortical potentials (MRCPs); Speed accuracy tradeoff

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

EID: 84904674229     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00251     Document Type: Article

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