Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults.
EEG
children
cognitive control
conflict monitoring
midfrontal theta oscillations
Journal
Developmental psychobiology
ISSN: 1098-2302
Titre abrégé: Dev Psychobiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0164074
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2021
12 2021
Historique:
revised:
28
09
2021
received:
21
06
2021
accepted:
30
10
2021
entrez:
23
11
2021
pubmed:
24
11
2021
medline:
26
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Conflict monitoring is central in cognitive control, as detection of conflict serves as a signal for the need to engage control. This study examined whether (1) midfrontal theta oscillations similarly support conflict monitoring in children and adults, and (2) performance monitoring difficulty influences conflict monitoring and resolution. Children (n = 25) and adults (n = 24) completed a flanker task with fair or rigged response feedback. Relative to adults, children showed a smaller congruency effect on midfrontal theta power, overall lower midfrontal theta power and coherence, and (unlike adults) no correlation between midfrontal theta power and N2 amplitude, suggesting that reduced neural communication efficiency contributes to less efficient conflict monitoring in children than adults. In both age groups, response feedback fairness affected response times and the P3, but neither midfrontal theta oscillations nor the N2, indicating that performance monitoring difficulty influenced conflict resolution but not conflict monitoring.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e22216Informations de copyright
© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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