The Big Five and their role within error processing [Elektronische Ressource] : evidence from event-related fMRI / vorgelegt von Zrinka Sosic-Vasic

University of Ulm Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III Medical Director: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Manfred Spitzer The Big Five and their role within error processing: Evidence from event-related fMRI Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Humanbiologie der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Ulm vorgelegt von Zrinka Sosic-Vasic Neu-Ulm 2009 Amtierender Dekan: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Michael Debatin 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Georg Grön 2. PD Dr. Bernd Schmitz Tag der Promotion: 08. Mai 2009 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………..1 1.1. Error processing…………………………………………………………..….2 1.1.1. The error-related negativity (ERN)……………………………….….2 1.1.2. Neural sources of error processing……………………………….…6 1.1.2.1. The ACC within error processing…………………………..9 1.1.2.2. The IFC within error processing…………………………...14 1.1.2.3. Other brain regions within error processing……………...17 1.2. Personality………………………………………………………………….. 18 1.2.1. The Big Five: A Five-Factor Model of Personality………………...19 1.2.2. Neural sources of the Big Five………………………………………22 1.3. Linking errors and the Big Five: neural findings…………………………. 27 1.4. Current study objectives…………………………………………………….28 2. METHODS.....................................................................................................30 2.1.