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ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2023

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control.

Jan R Wessel, Michael C Anderson

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Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Medial Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation Reduces Retrieval-Induced Forgetting via Fronto-parietal Beta Desynchronization.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  6. Temporal Dynamics of EEG Reflect Continuous Error Correction during Force Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Similar Response Dynamics Represent Opposite Behaviors and Rewards in the Frontal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  16. Prefrontal and Cerebellar Contributions to Semantic Memory Retrieval.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jan R WesselCognitive Control Collaborative, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. Electronic address: jan-wessel@uiowa.edu.
Michael C AndersonMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

The Role of a Neural Mechanism for Inhibitory Control in Cognitive FlexibilityR01NS102201 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI WESSEL, JAN R · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Medical Research Council MC_UU_00005/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_00030/1NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inhibitory control is a fundamental mechanism underlying flexible behavior and features in theories across many areas of cognitive and psychological science. However, whereas many theories implicitly or explicitly assume that inhibitory control is a domain-general process, the vast majority of neuroscientific work has hitherto focused on individual domains, such as motor, mnemonic, or attentional inhibition. Here, we attempt to close this gap by highlighting recent work that demonstrates shared neuroanatomical and neurophysiological signatures of inhibitory control across domains. We propose that the regulation of thalamocortical drive by a fronto-subthalamic mechanism operating in the β band might be a domain-general mechanism for inhibitory control in the human brain.

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action stoppingcognitive inhibitioninhibitory controlresponse inhibitionthink/no-thinkthought suppression

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PMID39492255
PMCPMC13386798

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