On the ability to inhibit thought and action: General and special theories of an act of control.
Vanderbilt University · University of Exeter · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Response inhibition is an important act of control in many domains of psychology and neuroscience. It is often studied in a stop-signal task that requires subjects to inhibit an ongoing action in response to a stop signal. Performance in the stop-signal task is understood as a race between a go process that underlies the action and a stop process that inhibits the action. Responses are inhibited if the stop process finishes before the go process. The finishing time of the stop process is not directly observable; a mathematical model is required to estimate its duration. Logan and Cowan (1984) developed an independent race model that is widely used for this purpose. We present a general race model that extends…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 35.99
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 166
Authors
4- GDGordon D. LoganCorresponding
Vanderbilt University, University of Exeter, The Ohio State University, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, University of Amsterdam
- TVTrisha Van Zandt
Vanderbilt University, University of Exeter, The Ohio State University, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, University of Amsterdam
- FVFrederick Verbruggen
Vanderbilt University, University of Exeter, The Ohio State University, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, University of Amsterdam
- EWEric‐Jan Wagenmakers
Vanderbilt University, University of Exeter, The Ohio State University, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Topics & keywords
- Stop signal
- Action (physics)
- Task (project management)
- Race (biology)
- Process (computing)
- Control (management)
- Cognition
- Psychology