Error-preceding brain activity reflects (mal-)adaptive adjustments of cognitive control: A modeling study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APRIL 2012, 2012, Pages

  Steinhauser, Marco ^a   Eichele, Heike ^b   Juvodden, Hilde T ^b   Huster, Rene J ^c   Ullsperger, Markus ^d,e   Eichele, Tom ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^g MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict monitoring; Connectionist modeling; Event related potentials; N2

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933672010     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00097     Document Type: Article

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