Proactively Adjusting Stopping: Response Inhibition is Faster when Stopping Occurs Frequently.

ABSTRACT: People are able to stop actions before they are executed, and proactively slow down the speed of going in line with their expectations of needing to stop. Such slowing generally increases the probability that stopping will be successful. Surprisingly though, no study has clearly demonstrated that the speed of stopping (measured as the stop-signal reaction time, SSRT) is reduced by such proactive adjustments. In addition to a number of studies showing non-significant effects, the only study that initially had observed a clear effect in this direction found that it was artifactually driven by a confounding variable (specifically, by context-independence violations, which jeopardize the validity of the SSRT estimation). Here, we tested in two well-powered and well-controlled experiments wheth

SUBMITTER: Doekemeijer RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10162359 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature