The neural basis of human error processing: reinforcement learning, dopamine, and the error-related negativity.

By Clay B. Holroyd, Michael G. H. Coles. Psychology Review, 2002

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A Cognitive Control Perspective of Self-Control Strength and Its Depletion (2010, background): “Compton et al. (2008) found that individuals displaying stronger ERN responses to errors (reflecting error-monitoring processes: Holroyd & Coles, 2002) were better able to control their emotional reactions to stressors in daily life.”
The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function (2021, background): “For example, dopamine receptors in the PFC have been related hypothetically to three main elements of CC: gating; maintaining and relaying motor commands; and producing error learning signals [116, 124, 125].”
PRELUDE TO AND RESOLUTION OF AN ERROR: EEG PHASE SYNCHRONY REVEALS COGNITIVE CONTROL DYNAMICS DURING ACTION MONITORING (2009, neutral): “The proposal that errors capitalize on ongoing response-related oscillatory dynamics does not conflict with the major computational models of the ERN such as Hopfield energy (Yeung et al., 2004a) or temporal difference error (Holroyd and Coles, 2002).”
The Computational and Neural Basis of Cognitive Control: Charted Territory and New Frontiers (2014, background): “The ERN has been proposed to reflect a negative reward prediction error mediated by the dopamine reinforcement learning system that signals the failure to receive an expected reward following commission of an error (Holroyd & Coles, 2002).”
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition (2014, methodology): “To address this concern about entrained reinforcement gradients, researchers replaced trial-by-trial feedback with deferred feedback whereby animals worked for blocks of trials before receiving a performance evaluation [19, 26].”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “Email: us@teo.au.dk (Holroyd & Coles, 2002), and conflict monitoring (Carter, Botvinick, & Cohen, 1999; Carter et al., 1998).”
The Influence of Exercise on Cognitive Abilities (2013, neutral): “One theory, the reinforcement learning model (93), holds that”
What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control (2012, background): “The first, described as a conflictmonitoring or error-detecting system (Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter, & Cohen, 2001; Gehring, Goss, Coles, Meyer, & Donchin, 1993; Holroyd & Coles, 2002), monitors ongoing behavior and is sensitive to conflicts between intended and actual responses.”
Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration (2007, background): “…to pain, negative feedback, errors in performance, conflicts in processing and even mental effort, all of which represent or are indicative of various forms of cost (e.g. Miltner et al. 1997; Carter et al. 1998; Peyron et al. 2000; Botvinick et al. 2001; Holroyd & Coles 2002; Yeung et al. 2004).”
Control and interference in task switching--a review. (2010, background): “Monitoring processes have been the subject of rather extensive research in single-task contexts (for reviews, see, e.g., Botvinick, Cohen, & Carter, 2004; Holroyd & Coles, 2002; Yeung, Botvinick, & Cohen, 2004).”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “…of threats. functional terms, the ERN has been proposed to signal discrepancy between a chosen response and awareness of an alternative response (Yeung, Botvinick, & Cohen, 2004) or expectancy violations that involve discrepancies between expected and observed stimuli (Holroyd & Coles, 2002).”
Evolutionary and Computational Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity (2008, background): “potheses on the neural bases of decisions in humans (Holroyd and Coles, 2002; Daw et al., 2006; Li et al., 2006; Cohen, 2008).”
Using EEG to Predict Consumers’ Future Choices (2015, positive): “With regard to electrode choice, ample data from EEG studies (Holroyd and Coles 2002; Nieuwenhuis et al. 2004; San Martin et al. 2010; Yeung and Sanfey 2004) and fMRI studies (Bartra, McGuire, and Kable 2013; Grabenhorst and Rolls 2011; Kable and Glimcher 2009; Levy and Glimcher 2012;…”
The expected value of control: An integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function (2013, positive): “One influential interpretation of the ERN is that it reflects negative PEs (associated with the commission of an error) that are used to drive learning in the service of improving action selection (Holroyd and Coles, 2002).”