Error-related electromyographic activity over the corrugator supercilii is associated with neural performance monitoring

Autor: Michael Inzlicht, Blair Saunders, Nathaniel Elkins-Brown
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Psychophysiology. 53:159-170
ISSN: 0048-5772
Popis: Emerging research in social and affective neuroscience has implicated a role for affect and motivation in performance monitoring and cognitive control. No study, however, has investigated whether facial electromyography (EMG) over the corrugator supercilii-a measure associated with negative affect and the exertion of effort-is related to neural performance monitoring. Here, we explored these potential relationships by simultaneously measuring the error-related negativity, error positivity (Pe), and facial EMG over the corrugator supercilii muscle during a punished, inhibitory control task. We found evidence for increased facial EMG activity over the corrugator immediately following error responses, and this activity was related to the Pe for both between- and within-subject analyses. These results are consistent with the idea that early, avoidance-motivated processes are associated with performance monitoring, and that such processes may also be related to orienting toward errors, the emergence of error awareness, or both.
Databáze: OpenAIRE