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Internal and external information in error processing

BACKGROUND: The use of self-generated and externally provided information in performance monitoring is reflected by the appearance of error-related and feedback-related negativities (ERN and FRN), respectively. Several authors proposed that ERN and FRN are supported by similar neural mechanisms resi...

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Autores principales: Heldmann, Marcus, Rüsseler, Jascha, Münte, Thomas F
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-9-33
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Rüsseler, Jascha
Münte, Thomas F
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description BACKGROUND: The use of self-generated and externally provided information in performance monitoring is reflected by the appearance of error-related and feedback-related negativities (ERN and FRN), respectively. Several authors proposed that ERN and FRN are supported by similar neural mechanisms residing in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the mesolimbic dopaminergic system. The present study is aimed to test the functional relationship between ERN and FRN. Using an Eriksen-Flanker task with a moving response deadline we tested 17 young healthy subjects. Subjects received feedback with respect to their response accuracy and response speed. To fulfill both requirements of the task, they had to press the correct button and had to respond in time to give a valid response. RESULTS: When performance monitoring based on self-generated information was sufficient to detect a criterion violation an ERN was released, while the subsequent feedback became redundant and therefore failed to trigger an FRN. In contrast, an FRN was released if the feedback contained information which was not available before and action monitoring processes based on self-generated information failed to detect an error. CONCLUSION: The described pattern of results indicates a functional interrelationship of response and feedback related negativities in performance monitoring.
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spelling pubmed-22914722008-04-10 Internal and external information in error processing Heldmann, Marcus Rüsseler, Jascha Münte, Thomas F BMC Neurosci Research Article BACKGROUND: The use of self-generated and externally provided information in performance monitoring is reflected by the appearance of error-related and feedback-related negativities (ERN and FRN), respectively. Several authors proposed that ERN and FRN are supported by similar neural mechanisms residing in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the mesolimbic dopaminergic system. The present study is aimed to test the functional relationship between ERN and FRN. Using an Eriksen-Flanker task with a moving response deadline we tested 17 young healthy subjects. Subjects received feedback with respect to their response accuracy and response speed. To fulfill both requirements of the task, they had to press the correct button and had to respond in time to give a valid response. RESULTS: When performance monitoring based on self-generated information was sufficient to detect a criterion violation an ERN was released, while the subsequent feedback became redundant and therefore failed to trigger an FRN. In contrast, an FRN was released if the feedback contained information which was not available before and action monitoring processes based on self-generated information failed to detect an error. CONCLUSION: The described pattern of results indicates a functional interrelationship of response and feedback related negativities in performance monitoring. BioMed Central 2008-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2291472/ /pubmed/18366727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-9-33 Text en Copyright © 2008 Heldmann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rüsseler, Jascha
Münte, Thomas F
Internal and external information in error processing
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title_full Internal and external information in error processing
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title_short Internal and external information in error processing
title_sort internal and external information in error processing
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-9-33
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