TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental trajectories of neural mechanisms supporting conflict and error processing in middle childhood
AU - van Meel, C.S.
AU - Heslenfeld, D.J.
AU - Rommelse, N.N.
AU - Oosterlaan, J.
AU - Sergeant, J.A.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - To study age-related changes in cognitive control, event-related potentials (ERPs) of children aged 6-9 years, 10-12 years, and young adults were recorded during a Flanker task. Younger children were more susceptible to conflict than older ones and adults. The N2 in incongruent trials was smaller in younger than older children, who did not differ from adults. The error-related negativity (ERN) following errors, however, was larger in adults than in children, but did not differ between younger and older children. Delayed development of neural responses to error processing relative to conflict monitoring may indicate dissociable maturational time tables of subdivisions of the anterior cingulate cortex. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
AB - To study age-related changes in cognitive control, event-related potentials (ERPs) of children aged 6-9 years, 10-12 years, and young adults were recorded during a Flanker task. Younger children were more susceptible to conflict than older ones and adults. The N2 in incongruent trials was smaller in younger than older children, who did not differ from adults. The error-related negativity (ERN) following errors, however, was larger in adults than in children, but did not differ between younger and older children. Delayed development of neural responses to error processing relative to conflict monitoring may indicate dissociable maturational time tables of subdivisions of the anterior cingulate cortex. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
U2 - 10.1080/87565641.2011.653062
DO - 10.1080/87565641.2011.653062
M3 - Article
SN - 8756-5641
VL - 37
SP - 358
EP - 378
JO - Developmental Neuropsychology
JF - Developmental Neuropsychology
ER -