What does cognitive control feel like? Effective and ineffective cognitive control is associated with divergent phenomenology

Psychophysiology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1205-1217

  Saunders, Blair ^a   Milyavskaya, Marina ^b   Inzlicht, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Emotion; ERN; Experience; Performance monitoring; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939256082     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12454     Document Type: Article

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