The Effects of Social Exclusion on the ERN and the Cognitive Control of Action Monitoring

Authors

Jason Themanson, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow
Aaron Ball, University of Chicago
Stephanie Khatcherian, Illinois Wesleyan University
Peter Rosen, Washington State University

Publication Date

January 2014

Comments

Psychophysiology is published by Wiley, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291469-8986.

Abstract

The current study investigated the influence of social exclusion, created through the Cyberball paradigm, on cognitive control using neural and behavioral measures of action monitoring. Healthy young adults performed a modified flanker task while their post-error behavior (accuracy, RT) and error-related negativity (ERN) were assessed. Results indicated that excluded participants showed decreased ERN and post-error response accuracy compared to included participants following their social interactions. These findings suggest that a common neural framework may exist for cognitive control processes and that cognitive control allocated toward exclusion-related processing following exclusionary social interactions may disrupt the capability to support self-regulatory action monitoring.

Disciplines

Cognitive Psychology | Psychology

Recommended Citation

Themanson, Jason; Ball, Aaron; Khatcherian, Stephanie; and Rosen, Peter, "The Effects of Social Exclusion on the ERN and the Cognitive Control of Action Monitoring" (2014). Scholarship. 11.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/psych_scholarship/11