How does the brain monitor performances? Does expertise modulate this process? How does an observer’s error related activity differ from a performers own error related activity? How does ambiguity change the markers of error monitoring? In this thesis, I present two EEG studies and a commentary that sought to answer these questions. Both empirical studies concern performance monitoring in two different contexts and from two different personal perspectives, i.e. investigating the effects of expertise on electroencephalographic (EEG) neuromarkers of performance monitoring and in terms of monitoring own and others’ errors during actions and language processing. My first study focused on characterizing the electrophysiological responses in experts and control individuals while they are observing domain-specific actions in wheelchair basketball with correct and wrong outcomes (Chapter II). The aim of the commentary in the following chapter was to highlight the role of Virtual Reality approaches to error prediction during one’s own actions (Chapter III). The fourth chapter hypothesised that the error monitoring markers are present during both one’s own performance errors in a lexical decision task, and the observation of others’ performance errors (Chapter IV), however, the results suggested a further modulation of uncertainty created by our task design. The final chapter presents a general discussion that provides an overview of the results of my PhD work (Chapter V). The present chapter consists of a literature review in the leading frameworks of performance monitoring, action observation, visuo-motor expertise and language processing.

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Performance monitoring during action observation and auditory lexical decisions

OZKAN, DURU GUN
27/02/2020

Abstract

How does the brain monitor performances? Does expertise modulate this process? How does an observer’s error related activity differ from a performers own error related activity? How does ambiguity change the markers of error monitoring? In this thesis, I present two EEG studies and a commentary that sought to answer these questions. Both empirical studies concern performance monitoring in two different contexts and from two different personal perspectives, i.e. investigating the effects of expertise on electroencephalographic (EEG) neuromarkers of performance monitoring and in terms of monitoring own and others’ errors during actions and language processing. My first study focused on characterizing the electrophysiological responses in experts and control individuals while they are observing domain-specific actions in wheelchair basketball with correct and wrong outcomes (Chapter II). The aim of the commentary in the following chapter was to highlight the role of Virtual Reality approaches to error prediction during one’s own actions (Chapter III). The fourth chapter hypothesised that the error monitoring markers are present during both one’s own performance errors in a lexical decision task, and the observation of others’ performance errors (Chapter IV), however, the results suggested a further modulation of uncertainty created by our task design. The final chapter presents a general discussion that provides an overview of the results of my PhD work (Chapter V). The present chapter consists of a literature review in the leading frameworks of performance monitoring, action observation, visuo-motor expertise and language processing.
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