Early response competition over the motor cortex underlies proactive control of error correction.

ABSTRACT: Response inhibition is a fundamental brain function that must be flexible enough to incorporate proactive goal-directed demands, along with reactive, automatic and well consolidated behaviors. However, whether proactive inhibitory processes can be explained by response competition, rather than by active top-down inhibitory control, remains still unclear. Using a modified version of the Eriksen flanker task, we examined the behavioral and electrophysiological correlates elicited by manipulating the degree of inhibitory control in a task that involved the fast amendment of errors. We observed that restraining or encouraging the correction of errors did not affect the behavioral and neural correlates associated to reactive inhibition. We rather found that an early, sustained and bilateral act

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Herreros B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9163130 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature