Inhibitory control contributes to "motor"-but not "cognitive"-impulsivity

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 324-334

  Caswell, Amy Jane ^a   Morgan, Michael John ^a,b   Duka, Theodora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Delayed discounting; Information sampling task; Inhibitory control; Motor impulsivity; Reflection impulsivity; Stop signal task; Temporal impulsivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTOR ACTIVITY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84881615152     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000202     Document Type: Article

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