Your conflict matters to me! Behavioral and neural manifestations of control adjustment after self-experienced and observed decision-conflict
Publication year
2009Author(s)
Number of pages
8 p.
Source
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3, (2009), article 57ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Volume
vol. 3
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
Biological psychology; DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 2: Perception, Action and Control; Biologische psychologieAbstract
In everyday life we tune our behavior to a rapidly changing environment as well as to the behavior of others. The behavioral and neural underpinnings of such adaptive mechanisms are the focus of the present study. In a social version of a prototypical interference task we investigated whether trial-to-trial adjustments are comparable when experiencing conflicting action tendencies ourselves, or simulate such conflicts when observing another player performing the task. Using behavioral and neural measures by means of event-related brain potentials we showed that both own as well as observed conflict result in comparable trial-to-trial adjustments. These adjustments are found in the efficiency of behavioral adjustments, and in the amplitude of an event-related potential in the N2 time window. In sum, in both behavioral and neural terms, we adapt to conflicts happening to others just as if they happened to ourselves.
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