Brain State Before Error Making in Young Patients With Mild Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Elina Hakkarainen, Silja Pirilä, Jukka Kaartinen, Jaap J. van der Meere

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Abstract

In the present experiment, children with mild spastic cerebral palsy and a control group carried out a memory recognition task. The key question was if errors of the patient group are foreshadowed by attention lapses, by weak motor preparation, or by both. Reaction times together with event-related potentials associated with motor preparation (frontal late contingent negative variation), attention (parietal P300), and response evaluation (parietal error-preceding positivity) were investigated in instances where 3 subsequent correct trials preceded an error. The findings indicated that error responses of the patient group are foreshadowed by weak motor preparation in correct trials directly preceding an error
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1489-1495
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Child Neurology
Volume30
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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