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Physiological evidence for response inhibition in choice reaction time tasks
Boŕis Burle1, Franck Vidal, Christophe Tandonnet
1Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de la Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Provence, Marseille, France. boris.burle@up.univ-mrs.fr
Brain and Cognition
|November 3, 2004
Abstract:
Inhibition is a widely used notion proposed to account for data obtained in choice reaction time (RT) tasks. However, this concept is weakly supported by empirical facts. In this paper, we review a series of experiments using Hoffman reflex, transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography to study inhibition in choice RT tasks. We provide empirical support for the idea that inhibition does occur during choice RT, and the implications of those findings for various classes of choice RT models are discussed.