Evaluating the positive and negative outcomes of our behaviour is important for action
selection and learning. Such reinforcement learning has been shown to engage a specific …

Dual-process models of psychopathy postulate two etiologically relevant processes. Their
involvement in feedback processing and its neural correlates has not been investigated so …

Recent research emphasizes the importance of social factors during performance
monitoring. Thus, the current study investigated the impact of social stimuli-such as …

BackgroundDepressed patients are biased in their response to negative information. They
have been found to show a maladaptive behavioral and aberrant electrophysiological …

This study examined the role of the medial frontal cortex in the processing of valence and
validity of performance feedback using a time-estimation paradigm. Participants had to …

Performance monitoring has been associated with two event-related potentials. The
feedback-related negativity reflects a reinforcement-learning signal leading to remedial …

Social stimuli seem to be processed more easily and efficiently than non-social stimuli. The
current study tested whether social feedback stimuli improve reward learning in a …

It is now well established that activation of the ventral striatum (VS) encodes feedback
related information, in particular, aspects of feedback validity, reward magnitude, and reward …

Previous receptor binding studies suggest dopamine function is altered in the basal ganglia
circuitry in task-specific dystonia, a condition characterized by contraction of agonist and …

Objective Electrophysiological studies on feedback processing typically use a wide range of
feedback stimuli which might not always be comparable. The current study investigated …