Error awareness as evidence accumulation: Effects of speed-accuracy trade-off on error signaling

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Steinhauser, Marco ^a,b   Yeung, Nick ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Error awareness; Error positivity; Error related negativity; Event related potentials; Performance monitoring; Single trial analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; ERROR AWARENESS; ERROR POSITIVITY; ERROR RELATED NEGATIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HIGH SPEED PRESSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LOW SPEED PRESSURE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEED ACCURACY TRADE OFF; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84933672199     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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