Citation

Wilkinson AA, Dennis M, Taylor MJ, Guerguerian AM, Boutis K, Choong K, Campbell C, Fraser D, Hutchison J, Schachar R. Child Neurol Open 2017; 4: e2329048X17732713.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/2329048X17732713

PMID

29051909

PMCID

PMC5639967

Abstract

Children with traumatic brain injury are reported to have deficits in performance monitoring, but the mechanisms underlying these deficits are not well understood. Four performance monitoring hypotheses were explored by comparing how 28 children with traumatic brain injury and 28 typically developing controls (matched by age and sex) performed on the stop-signal task. Control children slowed significantly more following incorrect than correct stop-signal trials, fitting the error monitoring hypothesis. In contrast, the traumatic brain injury group showed no performance monitoring difference with trial types, but significant group differences did not emerge, suggesting that children with traumatic brain injury may not perform the same way as controls.

Language: en

Keywords

pediatrics; performance monitoring; stop-signal task; traumatic brain injury