ArticlePsychophysiology2016
Error-related negativity (ERN) and sustained threat: Conceptual framework and empirical evaluation in an adolescent sample.
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- Age-related differences in the error-related negativity and error positivity in children and adolescents are moderated by sample and methodological characteristics: A meta-analysis.Psychophysiology · 2022Pooled it
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- Error-related brain activity in pediatric anxiety disorders remains elevated following individual therapy: a randomized clinical trial.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2018Trial
- Attention bias modification reduces neural correlates of response monitoring.Biological psychology · 2017Trial
- Altered Error Monitoring and Decreased Flanker Task Accuracy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- The Impact of Error-Related Brain Activity and Parental Attachment on Youth Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Evidence for Reduced Monitoring of Children's Laboratory Task Performance by Punitive Parents: An ERP Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Test Anxiety and Cognitive Stress on Error-Related Brain Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Maternal histories of depression and childhood maltreatment, authoritarian parenting, and daughter error-related negativity: Developmental model of adolescent daughter depression risk.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Social support, spirituality, and executive functions: An event-related potential (ERP) study of neural mechanisms of cultural protective factors in American Indians (AIs).The American psychologist · 2025Article
- Threats That Arise From Within: Changes in Error Processing and the Prospective Prediction of Everyday Avoidance.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of post-error processing in social anxiety across age.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Emotion Regulation Moderates the Prospective Association between ERN and Anxiety in Early Adolescence: An Age-Specific Moderation of Cognitive Reappraisal but not Expressive Suppression.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- A network analysis of affective and motivational individual differences and error monitoring in a non-clinical sample.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Error-related brain activity shapes the association between trait neuroticism and internalizing symptomatology in two tasks.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Multiple Adaptive Attention-Bias-Modification Programs to Alter Normative Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in Adolescents.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Being underweight, academic performance and cognitive control in undergraduate women.Archives of women's mental health · 2024Article
- The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth.Biological psychology · 2024Article
- Altered Error Monitoring and Decreased Flanker Task Accuracy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Research square · 2024Article
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Abstract
The error-related negativity (ERN) currently appears as a physiological measure in relation to three Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) constructs: Cognitive Control, Sustained Threat, and Reward Learning. We propose a conceptual model in which variance in the ERN reflects individual differences in the degree to which errors are evaluated as threatening. We also discuss evidence for the placement of the ERN in the "Sustained Threat" construct, as well as evidence that the ERN may more specifically reflect sensitivity to endogenous threat. Following this, we present data from a sample of 515 adolescent females demonstrating a larger ERN in relation to self-reported checking behaviors, but only in older adolescents, suggesting that sensitivity to internal threat and the ERN-checking relationship may follow a developmental course as adolescents develop behavioral control. In contrast, depressive symptoms were linked to a smaller ERN, and this association was invariant with respect to age. Collectively, these data suggest that the magnitude of the ERN is sensitive both to specific anxiety-related processes and depression, in opposing directions that may reflect variation in internal threat sensitivity. We discuss directions for future research, as well as ways in which findings for the ERN complement and challenge aspects of the current RDoC matrix.
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