Journal article
To err is (perfectly) human: behavioural and neural correlates of error processing and perfectionism
Antonia Barke, Stefan Bode, Peter Dechent, Carsten Schmidt-Samoa, Christina Van Heer, Jutta Stahl
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx082
Abstract
The attitude towards one's own imperfection strongly varies between individuals. Here, we investigated variations in error-related activity depending on two sub-traits of perfectionism, Personal Standard Perfectionism (PSP) and Evaluative Concern Perfectionism (ECP) in a large scale functional magnetic resonance imaging study (N = 75) using a digit-flanker task. Participants with higher PSP scores showed both more post-error slowing and more neural activity in the medial-frontal gyrus including anterior cingulate cortex after errors. Interestingly, high-EC perfectionists with low PSP showed no post-error slowing and the highest activity in the middle frontal gyrus, whereas high-EC perfection..
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Awarded by German Research Foundation
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Awarded by ethic committee at the University of Gottingen
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by grants of the German Research Foundation (STA 1035/3-1) to JS and an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant (DP160103353) to SB. Author's Note: This study was approved by the ethic committee at the University of Gottingen (0082011).