Heart work after errors: Behavioral adjustment following error commission involves cardiac effort.

ABSTRACT: Posterror slowing (PES) is the observation that people respond slower on trials subsequent to error commissions than on trials subsequent to correct responses. Different accounts have been proposed to explain PES. On the one hand, it has been suggested that PES arises from an adaptive increase in cognitive control following error commission, thereby making people more cautious after making an error. On the other hand, PES has been attributed to an orienting response, indicating that attention is shifted toward the error. In the present study we tested these accounts by investigating the effects of error commission in both flanker and switch tasks on two task-evoked cardiac measures: the interbeat interval-that is, the interval between two consecutive R peaks-and the RZ interval-that is, th

SUBMITTER: Spruit IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5889424 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature