When response inhibition is followed by response reengagement: an event-related fMRI study.

ABSTRACT: In the course of daily living, changing environmental demands often make our actions, once initiated, unnecessary or even inappropriate. Under such circumstances, the ability to inhibit the obsolete action and to update behavior can be of vital importance. Previous lesion and neuroimaging studies have shown that the right prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia seem to play an important role in the inhibition of already initiated motor responses. The present study was designed to investigate whether the neural activity of inhibitory motor control was altered if the inhibition process was succeeded by an additional process, namely the reengagement into an alternative action. Therefore, cerebral blood oxygenation during performance of a stop-change paradigm was registered in 15 male particip

SUBMITTER: Boecker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6870390 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature