To head or to heed? Beyond the surface of selective action inhibition: A review

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^a   Wylie, Scott A ^b   Forstmann, Birte U ^c   Burle, Borís ^d   Hasbroucq, Thierry ^d   Richard Ridderinkhof, K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences   (Netherlands)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Action control; Basal ganglia; Interference control; Prefrontal cortex; Response inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LATENT INHIBITION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROIMAGING; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79953008356     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00222     Document Type: Review

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