title: The effects of social exclusion on the ERN and the cognitive control of action monitoring.
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.
authors.forename: Jason R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Themanson
authors.forename: Aaron B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.forename: Stephanie M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Khatcherian
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012934:Social Isolation; D055815:Young Adult