SynthesisPsychophysiology2022
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.
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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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- Socioeconomic factors, error positivity, and performance monitoring in children.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Electrophysiological Correlates of Cognitive Dysfunction in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A Systematic and Mechanistic Review of EEG, ERP, and QEEG Evidence.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Exploring Longitudinal Associations Among Error-Related Negativity, Perception of Interpersonal Events, and Internalizing Symptoms in Female Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Do ADHD Symptom Clusters Moderate the Association Between Autistic Traits & Error-Related Negativity in Children With and Without Autism?: An EEG/ERP Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Trial-By-Trial Changes in Neural Indices of Performance Monitoring Uniquely Correspond to Behavioral Adjustments During a Flanker Task.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Altered Error Monitoring and Decreased Flanker Task Accuracy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Error monitoring and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Metacognitive Prompts Influence 7- to 9-Year-Olds' Executive Function at the Levels of Task Performance and Neural Processing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neural markers of error processing relate to task performance, but not to substance-related risks and problems and externalizing problems in adolescence and emerging adulthood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 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
- Exploring the Association Between EEG Microstates During Resting-State and Error-Related Activity in Young Children.Brain topography · 2024Article
- The psychometric upgrade psychophysiology needs.Psychophysiology · 2024Review
- Brain response to errors in children who stutter.Journal of fluency disorders · 2024Article
- Altered Error Monitoring and Decreased Flanker Task Accuracy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Research square · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Stability of Neural Correlates of Pediatric Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Pilot Study of Event Related Potentials and Electroencephalography.Journal of attention disorders · 2024Article
- Multimodal study of the neural sources of error monitoring in adolescents and adults.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- EEG Dynamics of Error Processing and Associated Behavioral Adjustments in Preschool Children.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
The error-related negativity (ERN) and the error positivity (Pe) are electrophysiological components associated with error processing that are thought to exhibit distinctive developmental trajectories from childhood to adulthood. To investigate the age and age moderation effects on the ERN and the Pe strength during development, we conducted a preregistered three-level meta-analysis synthesizing 120 and 41 effect sizes across 18 group comparison studies and 19 correlational studies, respectively. The meta-analysis included studies with mean age between 3.6 and 28.7 (min-max age range: 3.5 and 49.8) years for age-group comparisons and 6.1 to 18.7 (min-max age range: 4.0-35.7) years for age correlations. Results showed that age was associated with a more negative ERN (SMD = -.433, r = -.230). No statistically significant association between age and the Pe was found (SMD = .059, r = -.091), except for in a group comparison between younger and older adolescents. The age effects were not significantly moderated by whether a Flanker or a Go/No-Go task was used, whereas a probabilistic learning task moderated the age effect on the Pe. Moreover, the Fz and Cz electrode sites yielded stronger negative associations between age and the ERN and the Pe, respectively. The results confirm that the ERN and the Pe show differential development courses and suggest that sample and methodological characteristics influence the age effects, and lay the foundation for investigations of developmental patterns of the ERN and the Pe in relation to psychopathology and early genetic and environmental risk factors.
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