Brain potentials reveal reduced attention and error-processing during a monetary Go/No-Go task in procrastination.

ABSTRACT: Procrastination is a self-regulatory problem of voluntarily and destructively delaying intended and necessary or personally important tasks. Previous studies showed that procrastination is associated with executive dysfunctions that seem to be particularly strong in punishing contexts. In the present event-related potential (ERP) study a monetary version of the parametric Go/No-Go task was performed by high and low academic procrastinators to verify the influence of motivational context (reward vs. punishment expectation) and task difficulty (easy vs. hard) on procrastination-related executive dysfunctions. The results revealed increased post-error slowing along with reduced P300 and error-related negativity (ERN) amplitudes in high (vs. low) procrastination participants-effects that indic

SUBMITTER: Michalowski JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661523 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature