Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: An update

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 539-546

  Botvinick, Matthew M ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b   Carter, Cameron S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX (ACC); CHALLENGES; COGNITIVE CONTROL; ERROR PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; ERROR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 8844280148     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.10.003     Document Type: Review

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