Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update

MM Botvinick, JD Cohen, CS Carter - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2004 - cell.com
One hypothesis concerning the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is that it
functions, in part, to signal the occurrence of conflicts in information processing, thereby …

The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive control

KR Ridderinkhof, M Ullsperger, EA Crone… - science, 2004 - science.org
Adaptive goal-directed behavior involves monitoring of ongoing actions and performance
outcomes, and subsequent adjustments of behavior and learning. We evaluate new findings …

By carrot or by stick: cognitive reinforcement learning in parkinsonism

MJ Frank, LC Seeberger, RC O'reilly - Science, 2004 - science.org
To what extent do we learn from the positive versus negative outcomes of our decisions?
The neuromodulator dopamine plays a key role in these reinforcement learning processes …

The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity.

N Yeung, MM Botvinick, JD Cohen - Psychological review, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
According to a recent theory, anterior cingulate cortex is sensitive to response conflict, the
coactivation of mutually incompatible responses. The present research develops this theory …

Neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive control: the role of prefrontal cortex in action selection, response inhibition, performance monitoring, and reward-based …

KR Ridderinkhof, WPM Van Den Wildenberg… - Brain and …, 2004 - Elsevier
Convergent evidence highlights the differential contributions of various regions of the
prefrontal cortex in the service of cognitive control, but little is understood about how the …

Independent coding of reward magnitude and valence in the human brain

N Yeung, AG Sanfey - Journal of Neuroscience, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
Previous research has shown that two components of the event-related brain potential, the
P300 and feedback negativity, are sensitive to information about rewards and penalties. The …

The N2 in go/no-go tasks reflects conflict monitoring not response inhibition

FCL Donkers, GJM Van Boxtel - Brain and cognition, 2004 - Elsevier
The functional significance of the N2 in go/no-go tasks was investigated by comparing
electrophysiological data obtained from two tasks: a go/no-go task involving both response …

Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control

PR Montague, SE Hyman, JD Cohen - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Neuromodulators such as dopamine have a central role in cognitive disorders. In the past
decade, biological findings on dopamine function have been infused with concepts taken …

Cognitive and brain development

DP Keating - Handbook of adolescent psychology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The 1958 publication in North America of Inhelder and Piaget's classic work, The
Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence (following its 1955 publication in …

Attentional control and self-regulation

MR Rueda, MI Posner… - Handbook of self …, 2004 - books.google.com
Self-regulation has been a central concept in developmental psychology and in the study of
psychopathologies. Fonagy and Target (2002, p. 307) see self-regulation as “the key …