Time-frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: an EEG study

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• Alternative Title:
  Dev Psychobiol
• Personal Author:
  Morales, Santiago ; Bowers, Maureen E. ; Leach, Stephanie C. ; Buzzell, George A. ; Fifer, William ; Elliott, Amy J. ; Fox, Nathan A.
• Description:
  Error monitoring allows individuals to monitor and adapt their behavior by detecting errors. Error monitoring is thought to develop throughout childhood and adolescence. However, most of this evidence comes from studies in late childhood and adolescence utilizing event-related potentials (ERPs). The current study utilizes time-frequency (TF) and connectivity analyses to provide a comprehensive examination of age-related changes in error-monitoring processes across early childhood (N = 326; 50.9% females; 4-9 years). ERP analyses indicated the presence of the error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe) across all ages. Results showed no error-specific age-related changes in the ERN and the Pe. However, TF analyses suggested error-related frontocentral responses in delta and theta signal strength (power), delta consistency (intertrial phase synchrony), and delta synchrony (interchannel phase synchrony) between frontrocentral and frontolateral clusters-all of which increased with age. Additionally, the current study examines the reliability and effect size estimates of the ERP and TF measures. For most measures, more trials were needed to achieve acceptable reliability than what is commonly used in the psychophysiological literature. Resources to facilitate the measurement and reporting of reliability are provided. Overall, findings highlight the utility of TF analyses and provide useful information for future studies examining the development of error monitoring.
• Keywords:
  Adolescent Child Child, Preschool EEG Electroencephalography Error-Related Negativity Error Monitoring Error Positivity Evoked Potentials Female Humans Male Monitoring, Physiologic Reproducibility Of Results Time Frequency

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• Source:
  Dev Psychobiol. 64(3):e22215
• Pubmed ID:
  35312050
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9203655
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  UH3 OD023279/OD/NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UH3 OD023279/CD/ODCDC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  64
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e5b4444cc036a2b87ac5de40d977ba20c949fad236c3fcc6076c524419b77276
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118443/cdc_118443_DS1.pdf
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