Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences,
University of Melbourne.
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Error-related neural processes and the effects of aging.

Investigators:
Ms. Rachel Buckley
Ms. Evelyn Chen
A/Prof. Robert Hester
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.

Project Description:
You are invited to participate in a study that will examine performance
monitoring, or the ability to detect an error in your own performance, and then
your ability to use error processing to improve ongoing performances.
For humans, the ability to monitor ongoing performance (in particular the
processing of errors) is an executive function critical to behavioural control. This
serves an adaptive function in signaling 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 place in the Redmond Barry Building, and take about
60 minutes, during which you will view a series of numbers displayed on a
computer screen. You will be asked to make simple judgments about the images
that you see by pressing an appropriate key on the keyboard.
You will be reimbursed $10 per hour for your time, plus any small monetary
rewards that you may accrue from the task.

Contact:
For further information, or to volunteer to take part in the study, you can contact:
Evelyn Chen
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Phone: 9035 4910
E-mail: e.chen2@student.unimelb.edu.au