Gender Influences on Brain Responses to Errors and Post-Error Adjustments.

ABSTRACT: Sexual dimorphisms have been observed in many species, including humans, and extend to the prevalence and presentation of important mental disorders associated with performance monitoring malfunctions. However, precisely which underlying differences between genders contribute to the alterations observed in psychiatric diseases is unknown. Here, we compare behavioural and neural correlates of cognitive control functions in 438 female and 436 male participants performing a flanker task while EEG was recorded. We found that males showed stronger performance-monitoring-related EEG amplitude modulations which were employed to predict subjects' genders with ~72% accuracy. Females showed more post-error slowing, but both samples did not differ in regard to response-conflict processing and couplin

SUBMITTER: Fischer AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4831004 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature