Examining the Relationship Between Error Processing, Cognitive Control and Emotion: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach

Grant number: DP0556602

Abstract

The proposed research aims to contribute to current scientific thinking on how the processing of errors influences self-monitoring and cognitive performance. The ability to monitor one's cognitive performance deteriorates with normal ageing, and is particularly affected in a range of clinical conditions, where it is a reliable predictor of a poor prognostic outcome. This project aims to clarify understanding of the cognitive and neural processes underlying self-monitoring, as an important first step to improving rehabilitation and management methods for age-related impairments such as Alzheimer's disease, and prominent mental health conditions such as schizophrenia.

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Impaired error awareness and anterior cingulate cortex hypoactivity in chronic cannabis users

R Hester, L Nestor, H Garavan

2009-10-01

Drug abuse and other psychiatric conditions (eg, schizophrenia) have been associated with a diminished neural response to errors, ..

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Learning from errors: Error-related neural activity predicts improvements in future inhibitory control performance

R Hester, J Madeley, K Murphy, JB Mattingley

2009-06-03

Failure to adapt performance following an error is a debilitating symptom of many neurological and psychiatric conditions. Healthy..

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Human medial frontal cortex activity predicts learning from errors

R Hester, N Barre, K Murphy, TJ Silk, JB Mattingley

2008-08-01

Learning from errors is a critical feature of human cognition. It underlies our ability to adapt to changing environmental demands..

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Avoiding another mistake: Error and posterror neural activity associated with adaptive posterror behavior change

R Hester, N Barre, JB Mattingley, JJ Foxe, H Garavan

2007-12-01

The magnitude of posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC) activity during commission of an error has been shown to relate to adaptiv..

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Post-error behavior in active cocaine users: Poor awareness of errors in the presence of intact performance adjustments

R Hester, C Simões-Franklin, H Garavan

2007-09-01

Active cocaine abusers have a diminished neural response to errors, particularly in the anterior cingulate cortex thought critical..

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Neural mechanisms for response selection: comparing selection of responses and items from working memory

R Hester, M D'Esposito, MW Cole, H Garavan

2007-01-01

Recent functional imaging studies of working memory (WM) have suggested a relationship between the requirement for response select..

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Neural mechanisms involved in error processing: A comparison of errors made with and without awareness

R Hester, JJ Foxe, S Molholm, M Shpaner, H Garavan

2005-09-01

The ability to detect an error in one's own performance and then to improve ongoing performance based on this error processing is ..

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