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Trial reportAttention, perception & psychophysics2014

Response inhibition during perceptual decision making in humans and macaques.

Paul G Middlebrooks, Jeffrey D Schall

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Trial report in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Inhibitory control tests in non-human animals: validity, reliability, and perspectives.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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  9. Accumulators, Neurons, and Response Time.Trends in neurosciences · 2019
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  10. Comparative psychometrics: establishing what differs is central to understanding what evolves.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018
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  13. Models of inhibitory control.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
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  18. Revisiting the evidence for collapsing boundaries and urgency signals in perceptual decision-making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul G MiddlebrooksCenter for Integrative & Cognitive Neurosciencem Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Jeffrey D Schall
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Shop Module CoreP30EY008126 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI David J. Calkins · 1989 to 2026
$19.6M
THREE-TIERED PREVENTION MODEL TO BETTER SERVE ALL STUDENP30HD015052 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI DYKENS, ELISABETH MAY · 1985 to 2014
$18.6M
NEURAL CONTROL OF VOLUNTARY MOVEMENTR01MH055806 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SCHALL, JEFFREY D · 1996 to 2016
$5.2M
Neuronal mechanisms of response inhibition during decision makingF32EY023526 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MIDDLEBROOKS, PAUL G · 2014 to 2016
$169k
NEI NIH HHS F32 EY023526NEI NIH HHS P30 EY008126NEI NIH HHS P30-EY08126NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD015052NICHD NIH HHS P30-HD015052NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH055806NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH55806
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Response inhibition in stop signal tasks has been explained as the outcome of a race between GO and STOP processes (e.g., Logan, 1981). Response choice in two-alternative perceptual categorization tasks has been explained as the outcome of an accumulation of evidence for the alternative responses. To begin unifying these two powerful investigation frameworks, we obtained data from humans and macaque monkeys performing a stop signal task with responses guided by perceptual categorization and variable degrees of difficulty, ranging from low to high accuracy. Comparable results across species reinforced the validity of this animal model. Response times and errors increased with categorization difficulty. The probability of failing to inhibit responses on stop signal trials increased with stop signal delay, and the response times for failed stop signal trials were shorter than those for trials with no stop signal. Thus, the Logan race model could be applied to estimate the duration of the stopping process. We found that the duration of the STOP process did not vary across a wide range of discrimination accuracies. This is consistent with the functional, and possibly mechanistic, independence of choice and inhibition mechanisms.

Indexed as

Inhibition, PsychologicalAdultAnimalsAttentionChoice BehaviorDiscrimination, PsychologicalEye MovementsFemaleHumansMacacaMaleProbabilityReaction TimeSaccadesSpecies SpecificityTask Performance and Analysis

Identifiers

PMID24306985
PMCPMC4141461
OpenAlexW2033516895

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