Performance Monitoring by the Anterior Cingulate Cortex During Saccade Countermanding

Science ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 302 (5642) ◽  
pp. 120-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ito
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate

scholarly journals Performance Monitoring Local Field Potentials in the Medial Frontal Cortex of Primates: Anterior Cingulate Cortex

2008 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 759-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik E. Emeric ◽  
Joshua W. Brown ◽  
Melanie Leslie ◽  
Pierre Pouget ◽  
Veit Stuphorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Local Field ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Local Field Potentials ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Negative Polarity ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Field Potentials ◽  
Macaque Monkeys

We describe intracranial local field potentials (LFP) recorded in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of macaque monkeys performing a saccade countermanding task. The most prominent feature at ∼70% of sites was greater negative polarity after errors than after rewarded correct trials. This negative polarity was also evoked in unrewarded correct trials. The LFP evoked by the visual target was much less polarized, and the weak presaccadic modulation was insufficient to control the initiation of saccades. When saccades were cancelled, LFP modulation decreased slightly with the magnitude of response conflict that corresponds to the coactivation of gaze-shifting and -holding neurons estimated from the probability of canceling. However, response time adjustments on subsequent trials were not correlated with LFP polarity on individual trials. The results provide clear evidence that error- and feedback-related, but not conflict-related, signals are carried by the LFP in the macaque ACC. Finding performance monitoring field potentials in the ACC of macaque monkeys establishes a bridge between event-related potential and functional brain-imaging studies in humans and neurophysiology studies in non-human primates.

scholarly journals The Role of Intact Frontostriatal Circuits in Error Processing

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Ullsperger ◽  
D. Yves von Cramon
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Basal Ganglia ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Cortical Circuits ◽  
Lateral Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Error Related Negativity

The basal ganglia have been suggested to play a key role in performance monitoring and resulting behavioral adjustments. It is assumed that the integration of prefrontal and motor cortico—striato—thalamo—cortical circuits provides contextual information to the motor anterior cingulate cortex regions to enable their function in performance monitoring. So far, direct evidence is missing, however. We addressed the involvement of frontostriatal circuits in performance monitoring by collecting event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioral data in nine patients with focal basal ganglia lesions and seven patients with lateral prefrontal cortex lesions while they performed a flanker task. In both patient groups, the amplitude of the error-related negativity was reduced, diminishing the difference to the ERPs on correct responses. Despite these electrophysiological abnormalities, most of the patients were able to correct errors. Only in lateral prefrontal cortex patients whose lesions extended into the frontal white matter, disrupting the connections to the motor anterior cingulate cortex and the striatum, were error corrections severely impaired. In sum, the fronto—striato—thalamo—cortical circuits seem necessary for the generation of error-related negativity, even when brain plasticity has resulted in behavioral compensation of the damage. Thus, error-related ERPs in patients provide a sensitive measure of the integrity of the performance monitoring network.

Errors without conflict: Implications for performance monitoring theories of anterior cingulate cortex

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent van Veen ◽  
Clay B. Holroyd ◽  
Jonathan D. Cohen ◽  
V. Andrew Stenger ◽  
Cameron S. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate

ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX, ERROR DETECTION AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING: AN EVENT RELATED fMRI STUDY

NeuroImage ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. S110 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Carter ◽  
T. Braver ◽  
D.M. Barch ◽  
M. Botvinick ◽  
A. Sanders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
And Performance

The role of anterior cingulate cortex in performance monitoring

NeuroImage ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Nick Yeung ◽  
Jack Gelfand ◽  
Mike Scanlon ◽  
Jonathan Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate

Differential Involvement of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Performance Monitoring During a Stop-Signal Task

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert J.M. van Boxtel ◽  
Maurits W. van der Molen ◽  
J. Richard Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Functional Brain Imaging ◽  
Stop Signal ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Stop Signal Task ◽  
Choice Response ◽  
Normal Response ◽  
Differential Involvement

Abstract. Electrophysiological and performance measures obtained in a study using the stop-signal paradigm ( Van Boxtel, Van der Molen, Jennings, & Brunia, 2001 ) were used to examine the neural generators of error-related brain potentials. The stop-signal task consists of normal (choice) response trials, which occasionally have to be stopped. However, stopping is not always successful. Erroneous responses to stop signals were carefully matched for motor activity to normal response trials. The difference between normal and error trials was accompanied at the scalp by a sequence of error negativity (ERN/Ne) and error positivity (Pe). Dipole modeling was consistent with generators in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) - caudal for the ERN/Ne, and rostral for the Pe. We also found cardiac deceleration on error trials relative to normal response trials, possibly keyed to ACC functioning as well. These results support findings from neuroanatomical, functional brain imaging and animal studies that implicate the differential involvement of the ACC in cognitive and evaluative aspects of executive control.

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