The effects of impulsivity and proactive inhibition on reactive inhibition and the go process : insights from vocal and manual stop signal tasks

Leidy J. Castro-Meneses, Blake W. Johnson, Paul F. Sowman

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Abstract

This study measured proactive and reactive response inhibition and their relationships with self-reported impulsivity. We examined the domains of both vocal and manual responding using a stop signal task (SST) with two stop probabilities: high and low probability stop (1/3 and 1/6 stops respectively). Our aim was to evaluate the effect stop probability would have on reactive and proactive inhibition. We tested 44 subjects and found that for the high compared to low probability stop signal condition, more proactive inhibition was evident and this was correlated with a reduction in the stop signal reaction time (SSRT). We found that reactive inhibition had a positive relationship with dysfunctional but not functional impulsivity in both vocal and manual domains of responding. These findings support the hypothesis that proactive inhibition may pre-activate the network for reactive inhibition.
Original languageEnglish
Article number529
Number of pages12
JournalFrontiers in Human Neuroscience
Volume9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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© 2015 Castro-Meneses, Johnson and Sowman. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Keywords

  • human beings
  • inhibition
  • synchronization
  • vocalization

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