The inhibition of unwanted behaviors is considered an effortful and controlled ability.
However, inhibition also requires the detection of contexts indicating that old behaviors may …

The ability to stop an already initiated action is paramount to adaptive behavior. Much
scientific debate in the field of human action-stopping currently focuses on two interrelated …

In our everyday behavior, we frequently cancel one movement while continuing others. Two
competing models have been suggested for the cancellation of such specific actions:(1) the …

Response inhibition is a hallmark of executive control. The concept refers to the suppression
of actions that are no longer required or that are inappropriate, which supports flexible and …

Response inhibition refers to the suppression of actions that are inappropriate in a given
context and that interfere with goal-driven behavior. Studies using a range of methodological …

Response inhibition is considered to be a key component of executive control (eg, Aron,
Robbins, & Poldrack, 2014; Logan, 1994; Miyake et al., 2000; Ridderinkhof, van den …

Response inhibition is an essential aspect of cognitive control that is necessary for
terminating inappropriate preplanned or ongoing responses. Response-selective stopping …

A growing number of studies have investigated how motivation interacts with particular
cognitive functions, including attention, working memory, and other executive functions. In …

The stop-signal paradigm is increasingly being used as a probe of response inhibition in
basic and clinical neuroimaging research. The critical feature of this task is that a cued …

Refraining from reacting does not only involve reactive inhibitory mechanisms. It was
recently found that inhibitory control also relies strongly on proactive mechanisms. However …