scholarly journals Brain Error–monitoring Activity is Affected by Semantic Relatedness: An Event-related Brain Potentials Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 927-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesya Y. Ganushchak ◽  
Niels O. Schiller
Keyword(s):  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Lexical Retrieval ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
Brain Potentials ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Action Monitoring ◽  
Motor Responses ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Monitoring Activity

Speakers continuously monitor what they say. Sometimes, self-monitoring malfunctions and errors pass undetected and uncorrected. In the field of action monitoring, an event-related brain potential, the error-related negativity (ERN), is associated with error processing. The present study relates the ERN to verbal self-monitoring and investigates how the ERN is affected by auditory distractors during verbal monitoring. We found that the ERN was largest following errors that occurred after semantically related distractors had been presented, as compared to semantically unrelated ones. This result demonstrates that the ERN is sensitive not only to response conflict resulting from the incompatibility of motor responses but also to more abstract lexical retrieval conflict resulting from activation of multiple lexical entries. This, in turn, suggests that the functioning of the verbal self-monitoring system during speaking is comparable to other performance monitoring, such as action monitoring.

scholarly journals Conflict monitoring, error detection, and inhibition: behavioural and electrophysiological features

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Egeto
Keyword(s):  
Error Detection ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
Conflict Monitoring ◽  
Error Awareness ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Error Positivity ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Inhibition Index

Event-related potentials of performance monitoring, including N2 (conflict monitoring), error-related negativity and error positivity (ERN and Pe; error monitoring), and P3 (inhibition) have been studied. However, conflict monitoring lacks a behavioural measure, and the functional significance of ERN, Pe, and P3 are debated. To address these issues, a behavioural measure of conflict monitoring was tested by subtracting the reaction time (RT) of a simple from a choice RT task to isolate conflict monitoring; the functions of error monitoring and inhibition were examined. The RT difference correlated with the N2 area (longer conflict monitoring related to a larger N2). ERN and Pe areas were negatively and positively correlated with errors, respectively. P3 magnitude and onset were correlated with an inhibition index. The new behavioural measure provides an accessible way to study conflict monitoring. Theories of conflict monitoring for ERN, error awareness for Pe, and inhibition for P3 were replicated and extended.

N-methyl-d-aspartate Receptor Antagonist Ketamine Impairs Action-monitoring Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Skoblenick ◽  
Stefan Everling
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Antisaccade Task ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Action Monitoring ◽  
Aspartate Receptor ◽  
Response Errors ◽  
Monitoring Activity

Failures in monitoring of self-generated actions are thought to underlie the positive symptoms in schizophrenia. It has been hypothesized that these deficits may be caused by a dysfunction of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs). Here we recorded the activity of prefrontal neurons in monkeys performing an antisaccade task, while we administered a subanesthetic dose of the noncompetitive NMDAR antagonist ketamine. Many neurons discriminated between correct antisaccades and response errors in their postresponse activity. Ketamine increased the activity for the neurons' nonpreferred response, thereby decreasing the neurons' performance selectivity. Ketamine also affected the monkeys' behavior after an error, consistent with a deficit in error detection. The results show that NMDARs play an important role in action monitoring in primates. The decrease in performance selectivity of prefrontal neurons after ketamine can help to explain the deficits in action monitoring found in humans after ketamine administration and provides support for the hypothesis that an NMDAR dysfunction underlies self-monitoring deficits and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia.

The Error-Related Negativity, Self-Monitoring, and Consciousness

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislas Dehaene
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Internal Comparison

The error-related negativity (ERN) is a negative waveform that arises over the front of the scalp immediately after a participant makes a detectable error. The goal of this short article is to describe my serendipitous encounter with this brain signal in 1993–1994 and to briefly review the operation of the underlying error-monitoring system. Recent work suggests that the ERN reflects an internal comparison, by the anterior cingulate cortex, of two signals: an unconscious representation of the ongoing action and a conscious representation of the intended one.

Electrophysiological Correlates of Monitoring in Typing with and without Visual Feedback

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Pinet ◽  
Nazbanou Nozari
Keyword(s):  
Visual Feedback ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Feedback Condition ◽  
External Information ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Action Monitoring ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Condition Versus

New theories of monitoring in language production, regardless of their mechanistic differences, all posit monitoring mechanisms that share general computational principles with action monitoring. This perspective, if accurate, would predict that many electrophysiological signatures of performance monitoring should be recoverable from language production tasks. In this study, we examined both error-related and feedback-related EEG indices of performance monitoring in the context of a typing-to-dictation task. To disentangle the contribution of the external from internal monitoring processes, we created a condition where participants immediately saw the word they typed (the immediate-feedback condition) versus one in which displaying the word was delayed until the end of the trial (the delayed-feedback condition). The removal of immediate visual feedback prompted a stronger reliance on internal monitoring processes, which resulted in lower correction rates and a clear error-related negativity. Compatible with domain-general monitoring views, an error positivity was only recovered under conditions where errors were detected or had a high likelihood of being detected. Examination of the feedback-related indices (feedback-related negativity and frontocentral positivity) revealed a two-stage process of integration of internal and external information. The recovery of a full range of well-established EEG indices of action monitoring in a language production task strongly endorses domain-general views of monitoring. Such indices, in turn, are helpful in understanding how information from different monitoring channels are combined.

scholarly journals Conflict monitoring, error detection, and inhibition: behavioural and electrophysiological features

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Egeto
Keyword(s):  
Error Detection ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
Conflict Monitoring ◽  
Error Awareness ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Error Positivity ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Inhibition Index

Event-related potentials of performance monitoring, including N2 (conflict monitoring), error-related negativity and error positivity (ERN and Pe; error monitoring), and P3 (inhibition) have been studied. However, conflict monitoring lacks a behavioural measure, and the functional significance of ERN, Pe, and P3 are debated. To address these issues, a behavioural measure of conflict monitoring was tested by subtracting the reaction time (RT) of a simple from a choice RT task to isolate conflict monitoring; the functions of error monitoring and inhibition were examined. The RT difference correlated with the N2 area (longer conflict monitoring related to a larger N2). ERN and Pe areas were negatively and positively correlated with errors, respectively. P3 magnitude and onset were correlated with an inhibition index. The new behavioural measure provides an accessible way to study conflict monitoring. Theories of conflict monitoring for ERN, error awareness for Pe, and inhibition for P3 were replicated and extended.

Response-locked component of error monitoring in psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of error-related negativity/positivity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Vallet ◽  
Cecilia Neige ◽  
Sabine MOUCHET-MAGES ◽  
Jerome Brunelin ◽  
Simon Grondin
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Factorial Analysis ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
Affective Dimension ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Error Positivity ◽  
Following Error ◽  
Analysis Of Error

Background: Evidence suggests that individuals with psychopathy display difficulties to adapt their behavior in accordance with the demands of the environment and show altered performance monitoring. However, studies investigating electrophysiological markers of error monitoring (e.g., the error-related negativity (ERN) and the error-positivity (Pe)) in this population reported mixed results. To explain discrepancies observed between studies, we hypothesized that psychopathy dimensions influence electrophysiological outcomes and we predicted that individuals with impulsive-antisocial features would display abnormal ERN compared to individuals with interpersonal-affective features. Methods: Based on the PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies investigating ERN and Pe components in individuals with psychopathy compared to controls. A factorial analysis was undertaken to investigate the role of psychopathy dimensions on ERN. Results: Among the 206 retrieved studies, 15 were included in the meta- analysis. Individuals with psychopathy (n = 817) showed a reduced ERN (Cohen's d = 0.18) and Pe amplitude (d = -0.22) compared to control. The factorial analysis indicates a dissociation regarding the dimensional construct of psychopathy. The impulsive-antisocial dimension was linked to reduced ERN amplitude (d = 0.22) whereas the interpersonal-affective dimension was related to increased ERN amplitude compare to controls (d = -0.17). Conclusion: Individuals with psychopathy displayed abnormal ERN and Pe amplitudes following error commission. In addition, models reported that individuals with psychopathic traits relating more specifically to the interpersonal-affective dimension shows efficient error-monitoring systems and increased ERN component while those with marked impulsive-antisocial dimension displayed decreased ERN and altered performance monitoring.

scholarly journals Neurocognitive development of novelty and error monitoring in children and adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Kang ◽  
Nina Alexander ◽  
Jan R. Wessel ◽  
Pauline Wimberger ◽  
Katharina Nitzsche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
Prenatally Exposed ◽  
Developmental Patterns ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Synthetic Glucocorticoids ◽  
Behavioural Adaptations

AbstractThe abilities to monitor one’s actions and novel information in the environment are crucial for behavioural and cognitive control. This study investigated the development of error and novelty monitoring and their electrophysiological correlates by using a combined flanker with novelty-oddball task in children (7–12 years) and adolescents (14–18 years). Potential moderating influences of prenatal perturbation of steroid hormones on these performance monitoring processes were explored by comparing individuals who were prenatally exposed and who were not prenatally exposed to synthetic glucocorticoids (sGC). Generally, adolescents performed more accurately and faster than children. However, behavioural adaptations to error or novelty, as reflected in post-error or post-novelty slowing, showed different developmental patterns. Whereas post-novelty slowing could be observed in children and adolescents, error-related slowing was absent in children and was marginally significant in adolescents. Furthermore, the amplitude of error-related negativity was larger in adolescents, whereas the amplitude of novelty-related N2 was larger in children. These age differences suggest that processes involving top-down processing of task-relevant information (for instance, error monitoring) mature later than processes implicating bottom-up processing of salient novel stimuli (for instance, novelty monitoring). Prenatal exposure to sGC did not directly affect performance monitoring but initial findings suggest that it might alter brain-behaviour relation, especially for novelty monitoring.

The impact of sleep loss on performance monitoring and error-monitoring: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 101490
Author(s):  
Johanna M. Boardman ◽  
Kate Porcheret ◽  
Jacob W. Clark ◽  
Thomas Andrillon ◽  
Anna W.T. Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Sleep Loss ◽  
Error Monitoring ◽  
The Impact
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