On the Ability to Inhibit Thought and Action: General and Special Theories of an Act of Control.

Response inhibition is an important act of control in many domains of psychology and neuroscience. It is often studied in a stop-signal task that requires subjects to inhibit an ongoing action in response to a stop signal. Performance in the stop-signal task is understood as a race between a go proc...

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Published in:	Psychological Review Vol. 121; no. 1; pp. 66 - 96
Main Authors:	Logan, Gordon D., Van Zandt, Trisha, Verbruggen, Frederick, Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Jan2014
Subjects:	Choice (Psychology) Reaction time Cognitive psychology research Stochastic models Diffusion processes
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