Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies in humans have shown that many
behaviors engage processes that suppress excitability within the corticospinal tract …

Preparing actions requires the operation of several cognitive control processes that
influence the state of the motor system to ensure that the appropriate behavior is ultimately …

Motor system excitability is transiently inhibited during the preparation of responses.
Previous studies have attributed this inhibition to the operation of two mechanisms, one …

Inhibitory mechanisms are critically involved in goal-directed behaviors. To gain further
insight into how such mechanisms shape motor representations during response …

An important aspect of cognitive control is the ability to respond with restraint. Here, we
modeled this experimentally by measuring the degree of response slowing that occurs when …

The ability to inhibit actions, one of the hallmarks of human motor control, appears to decline
with advancing age. Evidence for a link between changes in inhibitory functions and poor …

Behavior arises from a constant competition between potential actions. For example,
movements performed unimanually require selecting one hand rather than the other …

Changes in neural activity occur in the motor cortex before movement, but the nature and
purpose of this preparatory activity is unclear. To investigate this in the human (male and …

It is well established that reaction time (RT) is shorter when a response signal is preceded
by a warning signal, because the warning signal causes the participant to prepare for the …

Single‐pulse transcranial magnetic stimulations (TMSs) of the motor cortex (M1) were
performed in order to decipher the neural mechanisms of time preparation. We varied the …