Universität zu Köln

Porth, Elisa ORCID: 0000-0001-5461-302X (2023). A Neurocognitive Approach to Error Commission and Error Processing in Complex Choice Tasks. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

Basic routines and momentous decisions have a constitutive commonality: sooner or later, making a mistake is inevitable. Consequently, a plethora of studies in the domains of psychology and cognitive neuroscience expended great efforts to understand the mechanisms behind error commission more profoundly. The current work comprises two studies that assess the neurocognitive dynamics of error commission and error processing in complex choices while considering error detection, error significance and action inhibition as moderating processes. In our first study, we implemented a novel complex choice task and replicated common variations of neural error processing mechanisms with error detection. We found that an additional self-evaluation rating during half of the experiment enhances neural correlates of error evidence accumulation. Conducting multivariate pattern analyses revealed a broad influence of self-evaluation on whole-brain activity patterns that is potentially associated with attentional resource allocation. In our second study, we assessed the cognitive dynamics of error commission and error processing during complex choices systematically from stimulus onset to post-response adaptation while considering different types of inhibition errors. For motor inhibition we found error-specific variations in neural measures along the entire processing stream, while interference suppression was linked to a particularly resource-intense processing of conflict and inhibition independent of response accuracy. Together, our two studies demonstrate that in complex choices, error-related cognitive processes underlie variations with error detection, self-evaluation and action inhibition that can be uncovered using different behavioural and electrophysiological assessments and a systematic analysing approach. Our findings highlight that the endeavour of investigating error commission and error processing in complex choices using a systematic multimethod approach is pivotal to foster a more profound understanding of error-related cognitive processes.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Porth, Elisa UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5461-302X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-710871
Date:	2023
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language error processing; error commission; event-related potential; task complexity English error detection; error significance; self-evaluation; multivariate pattern analysis English interference suppression; motor inhibition; action monitoring English
Date of oral exam:	4 September 2023
Referee:	Name Academic Title Stahl, Jutta Prof. Dr. Träuble, Birgit Prof. Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/71087