ABSTRACT
In order to interact with our environment, it is necessary to plan actions that we expect to lead to the desired outcomes, but also to monitor whether we have planned and have executed these actions in accordance with the outcomes we wished to achieve. If the monitoring processes detect a mistake in planning or in execution, a correction is necessary. In the humanperformance literature, monitoring has mostly been studied with two-alternative, forced-choice reaction time tasks. Such studies have led to cognitive models and suggestions about their neural implementation (e.g., Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter, & Cohen, 2001). This chapter deals with the question of how we monitor and correct ourselves when performing the more complex task of language production (verbal self-monitoring).
