ArticleFrontiers in psychology2012
Proactive inhibitory control of response as the default state of executive control.
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- Evidence for non-selective response inhibition in uncertain contexts revealed by combined meta-analysis and Bayesian analysis of fMRI data.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
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- Slower adaptation of control strategies in individuals with high impulsive tendencies.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, but not dopaminergic medication, improves proactive inhibitory control of movement initiation in Parkinson's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2013Trial
- Neural Correlates of Inhibitory Control in Impulsivity Traits in Non-Ecological Human-Computer Tasks: An ALE Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Hyperdirect projections from the supplementary motor area mediate subthalamic stimulation effects on movement initiation and inhibition in Parkinson's disease.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Incarcerated adolescents scoring high on the Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scale are characterized by impairments within brain regions associated with executive control: A source-based morphometry study.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of Proactive Adaptation in a Rewarded Response Inhibition Task: Executive, Motor, or Attentional Effects?Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Brain Network Abnormalities in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Insights from Edge Functional Connectivity Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Subthalamic Activity Is Associated With Proactive Inhibition in Parkinson's Disease Patients.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between proactive inhibition and restrictive eating behaviours in severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN).Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Heightened sensitivity to high-calorie foods in children at risk for obesity: insights from behavior, neuroimaging, and genetics.Brain imaging and behavior · 2023Article
- Cultural Differences in Inhibitory Control: An ALE Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Prepared and reactive inhibition in smokers and non-smokers.Behavioural brain research · 2023Article
- Fluoxetine degrades luminance perceptual thresholds while enhancing motivation and reward sensitivity.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- Altered predictive control during memory suppression in PTSD.Nature communications · 2022Article
- The superior response speed of table tennis players is associated with proactive inhibitory control.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Preparing to React: A Behavioral Study on the Interplay between Proactive and Reactive Action Inhibition.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- The Human Basal Ganglia Mediate the Interplay between Reactive and Proactive Control of Response through Both Motor Inhibition and Sensory Modulation.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Mouse Tracking to Explore Motor Inhibition Processes in Go/No-Go and Stop Signal Tasks.Brain sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Refraining from reacting does not only involve reactive inhibitory mechanisms. It was recently found that inhibitory control also relies strongly on proactive mechanisms. However, since most available studies have focused on reactive stopping, little is known about how proactive inhibition of response is implemented. Two behavioral experiments were conducted to identify the temporal dynamics of this executive function. They manipulated respectively the time during which inhibitory control must be sustained until a stimulus occurs, and the time limit allowed to set up inhibition before a stimulus occurs. The results show that inhibitory control is not set up after but before instruction, and is not transient and sporadic but sustained across time. Consistent with our previous neuroimaging findings, these results suggest that proactive inhibition of response is the default mode of executive control. This implies that top-down control of sensorimotor reactivity would consist of a temporary release (up to several seconds), when appropriate (when the environment becomes predictable), of the default locking state. This conclusion is discussed with regard to current anatomo-functional models of inhibitory control, and to methodological features of studies of attention and sensorimotor control.
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