ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2020
Methodological choices in event-related potential (ERP) research and their impact on internal consistency reliability and individual differences: An examination of the error-related negativity (ERN) and anxiety.
Article in Journal of abnormal psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.
- Variability in Preprocessing and Analysis of the Error-Related Negativity in Adult Response-Conflict Studies: A Systematic Review.Psychophysiology · 2026Pooled it
- Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates neural correlates of performance monitoring in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Trial
- The effects of an internet-based mindfulness meditation intervention on electrophysiological markers of attention.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2020Trial
- Pain Enhances the Auditory P2 but Attenuates Mismatch Response and P3a.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Early parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Preliminary Evidence of Inhibitory and Error-Related Neural Alterations Associated with Early Relapse in Cocaine Use Disorder: A Retrospective Go/No-Go Event-Related Potential Study.European addiction research · 2026Article
- Neural responses to error in youth: the impact of social context, anxiety, and worry.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Maternal depression symptoms as a context for longitudinal changes in the perinatal brain and infant emotion outcomes.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Hierarchical Phenotyping of Psychopathology: Implications and Opportunities for Precision Psychiatry When Biology Could Be Associated With Both Symptoms and Syndromes.Biological psychiatry · 2026Review
- Translating neurophysiological biomarkers into clinical tools: A psychometric blueprint illustrated with the error-related negativity.The American psychologist · 2025Review
- Impact of ERP Reliability Cutoffs on Sample Characteristics and Effect Sizes: Performance-Monitoring ERPs in Psychosis and Healthy Controls.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Enhanced Performance Monitoring as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker of the Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum: The Role of Disorder Category, Clinical Status, Family Risk, and Anxiety Dimensions.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Altered Social Processing as a Potential Mechanism of BPD Risk in Girls with ADHD: A Call for Multi-Method Developmental Research.Journal of psychiatry and brain science · 2025Article
- Error monitoring under working memory load: An electrocortical investigation.Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Reliability Theory for Measurements with Variable Test Length, Illustrated with ERN and Pe Collected in the Flanker Task.Psychometrika · 2024Article
- Assessing motivational biases in brain and behavior: Event-related potential and response time concomitants of the approach-avoidance task.Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Stimulus-related oscillatory brain activity discriminates hoarding disorder from OCD and healthy controls.Biological psychology · 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
- The psychometric upgrade psychophysiology needs.Psychophysiology · 2024Review
- Cognitive inflexibility and heightened error monitoring are related to lower sexual functioning.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Researchers in clinical psychophysiology make several methodological decisions during the analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs). In the current study, we review these choices from the perspective of individual differences. We focus on baseline period and reference scheme (i.e., average, mastoid, current source density), as well as choices regarding where (i.e., single electrode site vs. pooling of sites), when (i.e., area, area around peak), and how (i.e., subtraction- or regression-based difference scores) to quantify ERPs. To illustrate the impact of these analytic pathways on internal consistency reliability and individual differences, we focus on the error-related negativity (ERN) and anxiety-and present data from 2 samples: 1st, in adults with diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); 2nd, in relation to continuous self-reported symptoms of GAD in a large community sample of female adolescents. Results generally indicated similar internal consistency and between-subjects effect sizes across all evaluated methods. Nonetheless, some patterns of variation emerged, such as that, across both data sets, difference-based ERN measures, especially with mastoid reference, yielded more robust associations with GAD diagnosis and symptoms, despite somewhat lower internal consistency. The current analyses suggest that the association between ERN and anxiety is robust across a range of commonly used methodological choices. The present study is an example of how systematic analyses of analytic strategies on measures of internal consistency and between-subjects variability could help inform individual-differences ERP research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.