Maternal Behavior and Socioeconomic Status Predict Longitudinal Changes in Error-Related Negativity in Preschoolers

The development self‐regulation has been called a primary task of childhood. One system of self‐regulation, self‐monitoring, is indexed at the level of neural activity as early as preschool as the error‐related negativity (ERN). However, how context elicits developmental changes in neural processes of self‐monitoring like the ERN is not well understood. Here, socioeconomic status (SES) and parenting were tested as environmental influences on ERN...