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Metacognition in human decision-making: confidence and error monitoringNick Yeung
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:1310-21. 2012....- Dissociating response conflict and error likelihood in anterior cingulate cortexNick Yeung
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 29:14506-10. 2009..These findings support the conflict-monitoring theory and suggest that, in speeded decision tasks, ACC activity reflects current task demands rather than the retrospective coding of past performance... 
Drink alcohol and dim the lights: the impact of cognitive deficits on medial frontal cortex functionNick Yeung
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 7:347-55. 2007..The sensitivity of the MFC to disrupted processing elsewhere in the brain suggests complications in interpreting evidence of disturbed MFC function...- Theta phase resetting and the error-related negativityNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychophysiology 44:39-49. 2007..These findings suggest that the proposed analysis methods cannot provide unambiguous evidence that the ERN is generated by phase resetting of ongoing oscillations... 
Errors of interpretation and modeling: a reply to Grinband et alNick Yeung
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Neuroimage 57:316-9. 2011..The conflict monitoring theory provides such a construct, and a mechanistic implementation that continues to receive strong support from the neuroimaging literature, including the results reported by Grinband et al...- Bottom-up influences on voluntary task switching: the elusive homunculus escapesNick Yeung
University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:348-62. 2010.... - ERP correlates of feedback and reward processing in the presence and absence of response choiceNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:535-44. 2005.... - Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex shows fMRI response to internal and external error signalsClay B Holroyd
Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:497-8. 2004.... - The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativityNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Psychol Rev 111:931-59. 2004..It is concluded that the ERN can be explained in terms of response conflict and that monitoring for conflict may provide a simple mechanism for detecting errors... - Sensitivity of electrophysiological activity from medial frontal cortex to utilitarian and performance feedbackSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:741-7. 2004..The results are consistent with the view that the two components are manifestations of the same underlying cognitive and neural process... - A mechanism for error detection in speeded response time tasksClay B Holroyd
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 134:163-91. 2005..B. Holroyd & M. G. H. Coles, 2002). The model is used to simulate behavioral and event-related brain potential data in a speeded response time task, and the results of the simulation are compared with empirical data... - Stimulus modality, perceptual overlap, and the go/no-go N2Sander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Psychophysiology 41:157-60. 2004..These findings are discussed in terms of existing hypotheses of the N2, and clarify why previous studies have not found an N2 modulation in auditory go/no-go tasks... - No-go trials can modulate switch cost by interfering with effects of task preparationAgatha Lenartowicz
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
Psychol Res 75:66-76. 2011.... - Dissociable correlates of response conflict and error awareness in error-related brain activityGethin Hughes
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Neuropsychologia 49:405-15. 2011..Taken together, these findings suggest a dissociation between the ERN and the Pe, with the former reflecting the dynamics of response selection and conflict, and the latter reflecting conscious recognition of an error... - Independent coding of reward magnitude and valence in the human brainNick Yeung
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
J Neurosci 24:6258-64. 2004.... - Detection of synchronized oscillations in the electroencephalogram: an evaluation of methodsNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Psychophysiology 41:822-32. 2004..These findings suggest that proposed analysis methods may not effectively disambiguate competing views of ERP generation... - On the ERN and the significance of errorsGreg Hajcak
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
Psychophysiology 42:151-60. 2005..These results are discussed in terms of the functional role of the ERN in response monitoring... - Errors in reward prediction are reflected in the event-related brain potentialClay B Holroyd
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ 08544, USA
Neuroreport 14:2481-4. 2003..Consistent with the theory, we found that larger ERNs were elicited by unexpected absences of reward... - Between-task competition and cognitive control in task switchingNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Neurosci 26:1429-38. 2006..These findings provide support for theories that propose a control hierarchy comprising regions responsible for maintaining task-specific information about rules or goals, and regions involved in the coordination of these goals... - The impact of cognitive deficits on conflict monitoring. Predictable dissociations between the error-related negativity and N2Nick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 17:164-71. 2006..The simulation results suggest new interpretations of the cognitive deficits caused by alcohol consumption (impaired stimulus processing) and ACC lesions (impaired attentional control)... - Alcohol and error processingClay B Holroyd
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Trends Neurosci 26:402-4. 2003.... - Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selectionNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, England
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:455-69. 2003..The results are interpreted in terms of a model of the interactions between control input, task strength, and task priming... - EEG indices of reward motivation and target detectability in a rapid visual detection taskGethin Hughes
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Neuroimage 64:590-600. 2013..These findings provide theoretical insight into the neural indices of reward in an RSVP task, and have important applications in the field of satellite imagery analysis... - Electrophysiological correlates of anterior cingulate function in a go/no-go task: effects of response conflict and trial type frequencySander Nieuwenhuis
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:17-26. 2003..Instead, the results are consistent with the view that the N2 in go/no-go tasks reflects conflict arising from competition between the execution and the inhibition of a single response... - Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions?Sander Nieuwenhuis
Nat Neurosci 8:1631-3. 2005 - Activity in human reward-sensitive brain areas is strongly context dependentSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neuroimage 25:1302-9. 2005..These results provide important evidence regarding the way in which the brain scales the motivational value of events by the context in which these events occur... - The effects of recent practice on task switchingNick Yeung
U Cambridge, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge, England
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:919-36. 2003..Experiment 4 showed that the effect of recent practice was eliminated by active preparation for a task switch: It appears that endogenous task-set preparation reduces the effects of task-set inertia. ((c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved).. - Linear spatial integration for single-trial detection in encephalographyLucas Parra
Vision Technologies Laboratory, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Neuroimage 17:223-30. 2002..Our work demonstrates how a purely data-driven method for learning an optimal spatial weighting of encephalographic activity can be validated against the functional neuroanatomy...