Investigators: Miss Christina Van Heer, Ms Rachel Buckley, Ms Evelyn Chen, Ms Kathleen Charles-Walsh, Ms Alice Crole, A/Prof. Robert Hester,

School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne

Project Description:

You are invited to participate in a study that will examine performance monitoring; the ability to detect an error in one’s own performance, to adequately consider its motivational importance, and then to improve ongoing performance based on this error processing. For humans, the ability to monitor ongoing performance is an executive function critical to behavioural control, in particular the processing of errors, which serves an adaptive function in signalling to an individual that the task has increased in difficulty, and that the intervention of other attention or control processes would potentially be advantageous. We will examine how this process works and how efficiently it allows us to adapt our behaviour to task requirements.

The experiment will take about one hour, during which you will perform a computer based task.

You will be reimbursed $10 per hour for your time.

Contact: For further information, or to volunteer to take part in the study, you can contact: Miss Christina Van Heer, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne. E-mail: vanheerc@student.unimelb.edu.au