Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/68435
Title: Neural and behavioral traces of error awareness
Author(s): Kirschner, Hans
Humann, Jil
Derrfuss, Jan
Danielmeier, Claudia
Ullsperger, Markus
Issue Date: 2021
Type: Article
Language: English
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:ma9:1-1981185920-703863
Subjects: Error awareness
Post-error adjustments
EEG
Metacognition
Errormonitoring
Abstract: Monitoring for errors and behavioral adjustments after errors are essential for daily life. A question that has not been addressed systematically yet, is whether consciously perceived errors lead to different behavioral adjustments compared to unperceived errors. Our goal was to develop a task that would enable us to study different commonly observed neural correlates of error processing and post-error adjustments in their relation to error awareness and accuracy confidence in a single experiment.We assessed performance in a new number judgement error awareness task in 70 participants.We used multiple, robust, single-trial EEG regressions to investigate the link between neural correlates of error processing (e.g., error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe)) and error awareness. We found that only aware errors had a slowing effect on reaction times in consecutive trials, but this slowing was not accompanied by post-error increases in accuracy. On a neural level, error awareness and confidence had a modulating effect on both the ERN and Pe, whereby the Pe wasmost predictive of participants’ error awareness.Additionally, we found partial support for amediating role of error awareness on the coupling between the ERN and behavioral adjustments in the following trial. Our results corroborate previous findings that show both an ERN/Pe and a post-error behavioral adaptation modulation by error awareness. This suggests that conscious error perception can support meta-control processes balancing the recruitment of proactive and reactive control. Furthermore, this study strengthens the role of the Pe as a robust neural index of error awareness.
URI: https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/70386
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/68435
Open Access: Open access publication
License: (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0(CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Sponsor/Funder: Projekt DEAL 2020
Journal Title: Cognitive, affective, & behavioral neuroscience
Publisher: Springer
Publisher Place: New York, NY
Volume: 21
Issue: 3
Original Publication: 10.1038/s41562-020-00992-8
Page Start: 573
Page End: 591
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