Review
Behavioral Sciences
Carlos Albaladejo-Garcia, Fernando Garcia-Aguilar, Francisco J. Moreno
Summary: Inhibitory control, closely related to sports practice, was studied in this systematic review and meta-analysis within the Stop-Signal Paradigm. The analysis showed that athletes have a shorter stop-signal reaction time compared to non-athletes, and this effect is influenced by age. This suggests that extensive practice in competitive environments can improve inhibitory control, particularly in young athletes.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Emiliano Brunamonti, Martin Pare
Summary: The activity of neurons in the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is not sufficient to initiate and produce saccadic eye movements, but rather plays a regulatory role in the process.
FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Agostino Gibaldi, Silvio P. Sabatini
Summary: Saccades are rapid eye movements used by humans to focus on objects of interest. Deviations from the saccadic 'main sequence' can indicate neurological disorders. A new method with high repeatability has been proposed for assessing oculomotor performance, suitable for various subjects including patients and infants.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sung Min Son, Seong Ho Yun, Jung Won Kwon
Summary: The study investigates the short-term effectiveness of motor imagery training on response inhibition. The results show that response inhibition is significantly improved when motor imagery is combined with physical training.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Valentina Giuffrida, Isabel Beatrice Marc, Surabhi Ramawat, Roberto Fontana, Lorenzo Fiori, Giampiero Bardella, Sabrina Fagioli, Stefano Ferraina, Emiliano Brunamonti, Pierpaolo Pani
Summary: Based on previous studies, it has been found that actions can be facilitated or interfered depending on reward regimes. This study investigated how the change in reward perspective can influence subjects' adaptation strategy. The results showed that subjects preferentially employed a strategy-related speed of response adjustment to perform the task, while the duration of the inhibition process did not change significantly across the conditions. The investigation of strategic motor adjustments to reward's prospect is important for understanding action control and can be relevant to various groups of patients with cognitive control deficits.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Indrajeet Indrajeet, Cyril Atkinson-Clement, Yulia Worbe, Pierre Pouget, Supriya Ray
Summary: Tourette disorder (TD) patients show deficits in reactive inhibitory control but not proactive inhibitory control.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Margherita Giamundo, Franco Giarrocco, Emiliano Brunamonti, Francesco Fabbrini, Pierpaolo Pani, Stefano Ferraina
Summary: Reward prospect influences motor decisions, with animals adopting different strategies based on reward information and PMd neuronal activity correlating with behavior.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Melanie Ritter, Signe Allerup Vangkilde, Katrine Maigaard, Anne Katrine Pagsberg, Kerstin Jessica Plessen, Julie Hagstrom
Summary: Children with Tourette Syndrome (TS) showed intact performance in laboratory-based measures of inhibitory control (IC), but difficulties in daily life IC. The severity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms was strongly associated with IC deficits, indicating that comorbid ADHD may account for these impairments.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Han Li, Xue Zhang, Yong Yang, Anmu Xie
Summary: This review discusses the importance of eye movement investigation in Parkinson's disease (PD), as it can provide effective biomarkers for diagnosis, progression, and cognitive impairment. Eye tracking technology has revealed various abnormal eye movements in PD, such as decreased saccade amplitude and extended saccade latency. The study also highlights the research implications of oculomotor investigation in understanding the pathogenesis of PD and related motor symptoms, as well as its clinical implications as biomarkers and its inspiration on treatment.
PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alberto Gonzalez-Villar, Santiago Galdo-Alvarez, Maria T. Carrillo-de-la-Pena
Summary: The ability to inhibit incorrect behaviors is crucial for survival. Unpredictable signals activate motor inhibition processes, even when they require continuing an ongoing action.
Article
Ophthalmology
Frauke Heins, Markus Lappe
Summary: Research shows that individuals can flexibly use post-saccadic feedback to adjust their eye movements based on the requirements of the task. They are able to achieve task goals, regardless of whether the feedback is congruent or incongruent.
Article
Mathematics
Mohsen Soltanifar, Chel Hee Lee
Summary: This paper presents a new statistical software package, SimSST, which allows researchers to simulate stop signal task (SST) data under generalized scenarios. The package is based on the non-independent horse race model, copulas in probability theory, and the ExGaussian or Shifted Wald distributional assumption for go and stop processes. It offers sixteen scenarios for simulating SST data. A working example is provided to evaluate the precision of parameter estimations, and limitations and future work directions for the package are discussed.
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Min Tang, Xiaoyu Liu, Ying Dong, Zhili Tang, Hongqiang Huo, Linyuan Fan, Xiaofeng Qiao, Duo Chen, Jinghui Wang, Xin Du, Jieyi Guo, Yubo Fan
Summary: The study found that the inertia of manipulated objects has a significant impact on virtual reality interactions. Participants performed a virtual goal-directed task, moving virtual objects with different masses into a target hole. Results showed that hand movements became more spatially variable and discontinuous when the inertial load was removed. Eye-tracking data indicated that an increase in visual attention helped compensate for the absence of inertia, supporting the kinematic results. These findings highlight the importance and mechanism of inertia on human behaviors in virtual reality interactions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Joshua R. Tatz, Cheol Soh, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: The study focuses on the cognitive and neural processes involved in action-stopping, finding that both ignore signals and stop signals can induce early inhibitory effects on corticospinal excitability and EMG, with unique neural activity related to stop signals emerging at a later stage.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kazumichi Matsumiya
Summary: Purposeful motor actions rely on the brain's representation of the body, known as the body schema. Previous studies have focused on single motor actions, but this research investigates the body schema during multiple motor actions, revealing the presence of effector-specific body representations.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Darcy A. Waller, Eliot Hazeltine, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: Research suggests that the P3 event-related potential observed in action-stopping tasks in the laboratory may not only reflect motor inhibition, but also detection of infrequent events. Two studies demonstrate that the characteristics of P3 related to motor inhibition are only present in the stop-signal task, not in a change-detection task. Furthermore, after modifying the event frequency in the change-detection task, a similar P3-like potential response was elicited, but with smaller amplitude.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Behavioral Sciences
Jan R. Wessel, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Pierre Bellec
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Tobin Dykstra, Darcy A. Waller, Eliot Hazeltine, Jan R. Wessel
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Jan R. Wessel
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Nandakumar S. Narayanan, Jan R. Wessel, Jeremy D. W. Greenlee
Article
Neurosciences
Carly Iacullo, Darcy A. Diesburg, Jan R. Wessel
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Megan Hynd, Cheol Soh, Benjamin O. Rangel, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: The study combines EEG and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) methods to demonstrate a direct correspondence between fronto-central control-related EEG activity following signals to cancel an action and the physiological inhibition of primary motor cortex.
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Cheol Soh, Megan Hynd, Benjamin O. Rangel, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: Research using scalp EEG recordings in 41 healthy adult participants during a bimanual RT task showed that proactive inhibitory control is implemented by upregulating the tonic inhibition of the motor system, as indicated by increased sensorimotor beta-bursting both before and after signals to initiate a movement. This strategic deployment of proactive inhibitory motor control increased the likelihood of successful movement cancellation, with differences in beta bursting rates during movement initiation playing a key role.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Yuri G. Pavlov, Nika Adamian, Stefan Appelhoff, Mahnaz Arvaneh, Christopher S. Y. Benwell, Christian Beste, Amy R. Bland, Daniel E. Bradford, Florian Bublatzky, Niko A. Busch, Peter E. Clayson, Damian Cruse, Artur Czeszumski, Anna Dreber, Guillaume Dumas, Benedikt Ehinger, Giorgio Ganis, Xun He, Jose A. Hinojosa, Christoph Huber-Huber, Michael Inzlicht, Bradley N. Jack, Magnus Johannesson, Rhiannon Jones, Evgenii Kalenkovich, Laura Kaltwasser, Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani, Andreas Keil, Peter Konig, Layla Kouara, Louisa Kulke, Cecile D. Ladouceur, Nicolas Langer, Heinrich R. Liesefeld, David Luque, Annmarie MacNamara, Liad Mudrik, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Lauren B. Neal, Gustav Nilsonne, Guiomar Niso, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Robert Oostenveld, Cyril R. Pernet, Gilles Pourtois, Manuela Ruzzoli, Sarah M. Sass, Alexandre Schaefer, Magdalena Senderecka, Joel S. Snyder, Christian K. Tamnes, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Marieke K. van Vugt, Edelyn Verona, Robin Vloeberghs, Dominik Welke, Jan R. Wessel, Ilya Zakharov, Faisal Mushtaq
Summary: There is a recognition in the neuroscience community that enhancing the replicability of studies on the relationship between brain activity and cognitive phenomena requires high statistical power and standardized analysis pipelines. In response, the #EEGManyLabs project has been launched to replicate key findings from influential EEG studies through international collaboration. The project aims to update confidence in EEG discoveries, create an open access database for future research, and promote a cultural shift towards inclusive, high-powered multi-laboratory collaborations.
Article
Neurosciences
Joshua R. Tatz, Cheol Soh, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: The study focuses on the cognitive and neural processes involved in action-stopping, finding that both ignore signals and stop signals can induce early inhibitory effects on corticospinal excitability and EMG, with unique neural activity related to stop signals emerging at a later stage.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Yao Guan, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: This study investigated the effects of action errors and unexpected perceptual events on behavior and neural oscillations using scalp EEG. The results indicated that unexpected events had different impacts on behavior and frontal midline delta-to-theta dynamics during different post-error periods, supporting the concept of two distinct post-error stages.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Darcy A. Diesburg, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: This study introduces a two-stage model of action-stopping based on animal research to address controversies surrounding human action-stopping. The model suggests that attentional orienting and motor inhibition after stop-signals are inseparable, and inhibitory signatures after stop-signals can be divided into two sequential stages based on latency.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kathleen Kang, Nina Alexander, Jan R. Wessel, Pauline Wimberger, Katharina Nitzsche, Clemens Kirschbaum, Shu-Chen Li
Summary: The study found that adolescents performed better in accuracy and speed compared to children. Additionally, the pattern of behavioral adaptation to error or novelty differed between the two age groups, with children showing post-novelty slowing while error-related slowing was absent in children and only marginally significant in adolescents.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Darcy A. Diesburg, Jeremy Dw Greenlee, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: The study found that subcortical beta bursts increased in successful stop trials, especially with STN bursts followed by increased beta bursting over SMC within 50 ms. Comparisons between sites also confirmed that beta bursts in STN temporally precede thalamic beta bursts.
Article
Neurosciences
Cheol Soh, Jan R. Wessel
Summary: Unexpected events can disrupt attentional representations by activating a neural mechanism for inhibitory control, shedding new light on the processes underlying fronto-central control signals and their implications for phenomena like distraction and the attentional blink.