Multiplexed Performance Monitoring Signals in the EEG in Health and Mental Disorders

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Performance monitoring is essential for successful goal-directed behavior. This webinar will briefly introduce the neural correlates of performance monitoring in humans and then focus on feedback-related EEG dynamics. Multiple regression and multivariate pattern analysis revealed that the representations of reward prediction errors, learning rate, surprise and other variables guiding future decisions are multiplexed in the feedback-locked EEG. Furthermore, this webinar will present model-based analyses of data from patients with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, respectively. Both groups show reduced learning rate dynamics impairing their learning performance in uncertain environments. These behavioral deficits are accompanied by specific changes in the feedback-locked EEG dynamics. 

This webinar will be presented by Prof. Dr. Markus Ullsperger who is a full professor of neuropsychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. His research focuses on developing and testing neurobiologically plausible models of performance monitoring and adaptive behavior in humans. He combines neuroimaging and EEG with computational modeling and pharmacological challenges in healthy participants and patients with neurological and mental disorders. Trained as a physician, he pursued his career at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, the MPI for Neurological Research, Cologne, and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen. In 2021/22 he served as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.

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