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Reliable estimation of inhibitory efficiency: To anticipate, choose, or simply react?

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Response inhibition is an important executive process studied by clinical and experimental psychologists, neurophysiologists, and cognitive neuroscientists alike. Stop-signal paradigms are popular because they are grounded in a theory that provides methods to estimate the latency of an unobservable process: the stop-signal reaction time (SSRT). Critically, SSRT estimates can be biased by skew of the response time distribution and gradual slowing over the course of the experiment. Here, we present a series of experiments that directly compare three common stop-signal paradigms that differ in the distribution of response times. The results show that the widely used choice response (CR) and simple response (SR) time versions of the stop-signal paradigm are particularly susceptible to skew of the response time distribution and response slowing, and that using the anticipated response (AR) paradigm based on the Slater-Hammel task offers a viable alternative to obtain more reliable SSRT estimates. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
ISSN: 0953-816X
Issue: 12
Volume: 45
Pages: 1512 - 1523
Publication year:2017
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BOF-publication weight:1
CSS-citation score:1
Authors:International
Authors from:Higher Education
Accessibility:Open