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A supramodal network for response inhibition.

Stephan Walther1, Roberto Goya-Maldonado, Christoph Stippich

  • 1Section of Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany. stephan_walther@med.uni-heidelberg.de

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Response inhibition, the ability to stop unwanted actions, relies on a supramodal brain network. This executive function shows consistent neural activation across auditory and visual tasks, highlighting its core role.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Response inhibition is a critical executive function for suppressing inappropriate actions.
  • Understanding its neural organization (supramodal vs. modality-specific) is key to its cognitive role.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural organization of response inhibition.
  • To determine if brain activation for response inhibition differs across sensory modalities.

Main Methods:

  • Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
  • A go-nogo task involving both auditory and visual stimuli.

Main Results:

  • Common activation for response inhibition across auditory and visual stimuli was found in a frontoparietal network.
  • Specifically, the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex showed consistent activation.
  • No modality-specific prefrontal cortex activation related to response inhibition was observed.

Conclusions:

  • The neural correlates of response inhibition are organized supramodally.
  • This supramodal organization supports its function as a core executive process.