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
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)
Article
Neurosciences
Ahmet O. Ceceli, Sarah G. King, Natalie McClain, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Z. Goldstein
Summary: Heroin addiction results in detrimental effects on society, but little is known about its neurobiology. This study examines inhibitory control in individuals with heroin addiction (iHUDs) using a stop-signal fMRI task, and finds impaired target detection sensitivity and hypoactivations in cognitive control regions associated with task performance and heroin use severity measures.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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
Francesca Morreale, Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Ludvic Zrinzo, Patricia Limousin, Eileen Joyce, Tom Foltynie, Marjan Jahanshahi
Summary: Deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus significantly improves tics in patients with Tourette syndrome, but has no significant effect on their reactive inhibition.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Elvira Khachatryan, Benjamin Wittevrongel, Mariska Reinartz, Ine Dauwe, Evelien Carrette, Alfred Meurs, Dirk Van Roost, Paul Boon, Marc M. Van Hulle
Summary: This study investigates the effect of cognitive workload on the efficacy of GENUS therapy. The results suggest that including a cognitive task during GENUS sessions enhances gamma entrainment and promotes its propagation to deep neural areas such as the hippocampus. This finding has significant implications for improving the efficacy of GENUS therapy and shortening the time needed for positive outcomes.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Haiyan Wang, Lingzhong Fan, Ming Song, Bing Liu, Dongya Wu, Rongtao Jiang, Jin Li, Ang Li, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L. W. Bokde, Erin Burke Quinlan, Sylvane Desrivieres, Herta Flor, Antoine Grigis, Hugh Garavan, Bader Chaarani, Penny Gowland, Andreas Heinz, Bernd Ittermann, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillere Martinot, Eric Artiges, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Sabina Millenet, Juliane H. Frohner, Michael N. Smolka, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Tianzi Jiang
Summary: The study reveals individual differences in inhibitory control development from mid- to late-adolescence, and emphasizes the importance of ventral attention-subcortical network interconnections in predicting future inhibitory control development and substance abuse in adolescents. Prediction models constructed using 14-year-olds' functional connections can predict future inhibitory control development and substance abuse problems in adolescents.
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
Health Care Sciences & Services
Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Johannes Lohmann, Manuel Ninaus
Summary: This study reveals that in a gamified stop-signal task, the exacerbated inhibitory control deficits in overweight populations can be preserved. While gamification elements can impact behavioral performance, gamified tasks are still capable of assessing inhibitory control deficits.
JMIR SERIOUS GAMES
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Alessandro Tomassini, Frank H. Hezemans, Rong Ye, Kamen A. Tsvetanov, Noham Wolpe, James B. Rowe
Summary: This study confirms the association between locus coeruleus integrity and response inhibition ability using MRI imaging. It also demonstrates that the connectivity between presupplementary motor area (preSMA) and right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) plays a mediating role in this association. These findings suggest that the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system regulates inhibitory control in healthy individuals.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Suzuha Kidoura, Yumeno Higuchi, Naoto Sato, Risa Santa, Mana Miyamoto, Kenichi Shibuya
Summary: Mastication improves cognitive functions, including inhibitory control, and increases sympathetic nerve activity. This study investigates the effects of food hardness on cognitive inhibitory control function in humans. Participants consumed either soft or hard gummies and performed a stop-signal task. The results show that hard gummy consumption leads to shorter reaction times and higher accuracy rates in the task, indicating that food hardness enhances cognitive inhibitory control function in humans.
JOURNAL OF TEXTURE STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Kelsey E. Schultz, Dominique Denning, Vanessa Hufnagel, Nicole Swann
Summary: Flexible and adaptive behavior relies on inhibitory control, which allows us to stop ongoing movements effectively. However, current inhibitory control tasks do not specifically examine the termination of ongoing movements. In this study, we developed a novel continuous movement stop task (CMST) to directly observe and compare prepared and reactive stopping behaviors.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Francisco Rocabado, Jon Andoni Dunabeitia
Summary: Executive functions are crucial for regulating behavior, with inhibitory control being a main component. The accessibility of virtual reality technology has allowed for the development of new research methods to investigate inhibitory control in real-world settings, while still maintaining high measurement accuracy.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Hilary J. Traut, Nicolas Chevalier, Ryan M. Guild, Yuko Munakata
Summary: The study found that different practice approaches can improve children's inhibitory control and impact the generalization and variability of control. Only the benefits of monitoring showed signs of depending on proactive control, suggesting possibilities for tailored interventions.
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)
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
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Oscar Woolnough, Cihan M. Kadipasaoglu, Christopher R. Conner, Kiefer J. Forseth, Patrick S. Rollo, Matthew J. Rollo, Vatche G. Baboyan, Nitin Tandon
Summary: This study utilized high spatiotemporal resolution direct intracranial recordings to investigate the network dynamics involved in visual scene recognition. A dataset containing recordings from a large cohort of humans identifying images of famous landmarks was provided, along with behavioral metrics and electrode localization. This rich dataset allows for further exploration of the spatiotemporal progression of neural processes involved in visual processing, scene recognition, and cued memory recall.
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.