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Altered error processing following vascular thalamic damage: evidence from an antisaccade task.

Jutta Peterburs¹, Giulio Pergola, Benno Koch

¹Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. jutta.peterburs@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

|July 7, 2011

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The thalamus plays a role in rapid error processing, as evidenced by reduced error-related negativity (ERN) in patients with thalamic damage. This suggests the thalamus aids in monitoring eye movements and error awareness.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Electrophysiology

Background:

Event-related potentials (ERP) research has identified the error-related negativity (ERN) as a neural marker for error processing.
The rapid onset of ERN suggests involvement of an internal monitoring system utilizing efference copy signals.
The thalamus is implicated as a relay for efference copy signals related to eye movements.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the role of the thalamus in error processing using event-related potentials (ERPs).
To examine error monitoring during an antisaccade task in patients with focal thalamic damage.

Main Methods:

Utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to measure error processing.
Compared ERN amplitudes in six patients with focal vascular thalamic damage to 28 control subjects during an antisaccade task.

Main Results:

Patients with thalamic lesions exhibited significantly reduced ERN amplitudes compared to controls.
Strongest ERN attenuation was observed in patients with specific right and bilateral ventrolateral thalamic damage.
Thalamic lesion patients made more errors, but ERN attenuation did not correlate with error rate.

Conclusions:

The thalamus is crucial for online monitoring of saccadic eye movements and facilitates fast error processing by relaying efference copy signals.
Reduced error awareness in patients suggests that early error processing, potentially supported by the thalamus, contributes to conscious error detection.