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- Title
Lapses in a Prefrontal-Extrastriate Preparatory Attention Network Predict Mistakes.
- Authors
Padilla, Mayra L.; Wood, Richard A.; Hale, Laura A.; Knight, Robert T.
- Abstract
Mistakes are common to all forms of behavior but there is disagreement about what causes errors. We recorded electrophysiological and behavioral measures in a letter discrimination task to examine whether deficits in preparatory attention predicted subsequent response errors. Error trials were characterized by decreased frontal-central preparatory attention event-related potentials (ERPs) prior to stimulus presentation and decreased extrastriate sensory ERPs during visual processing. These findings indicate that transient lapses in a prefrontal-extrastriate preparatory attention network can lead to response errors.
- Subjects
PREFRONTAL cortex; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY
- Publication
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 9, p1477
- ISSN
0898-929X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/jocn.2006.18.9.1477