A Resource Account of Inhibition

Abstract

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The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds

“…Under a heightened NFC, individuals tend to become impervious to information that could potentially undermine their targeted judgments and impressions . There is a substantial body of evidence that retrieval of items from memory requires a focus on the class of items to be recalled and imperviousness to other items that could run interference with retrieval of the targeted items (Engle, Conway, Tuholski, & Shisler, 1995;Koessler, Engler, Riether, & Kissler, 2009;Roman, Soriano, Gomez-Ariza, & Bayo, 2009). Therefore, NFC could facilitate such selective focus, augmenting the RIF effect.…”

Heart Rate Variability, Prefrontal Neural Function, and Cognitive Performance: The Neurovisceral Integration Perspective on Self-regulation, Adaptation, and Health

“…Inhibition involves the suppression of prepotent, irrelevant, or interfering stimuli or impulses associated with concomitant excitatory processes such that those processes that are not inhibited achieve a processing advantage [47]. William James [48], among others, noted the importance of the ability to selectively attend to a subset of stimuli from a complex, dynamic environment and juxtaposed this ability with the "confused, dazed, and scatter-brain state."…”

Flanker negative priming from spatially unpredictable primes: An ERP study

“…Both, the left-posterior predominance and the late time range of the present NP-related ERP effect indicates that NP in the variedlocations task operates at the level of conceptual representations. If so, the inhibitory processes contributing to this NP effect should be subject to capacity limitations (cf., Engle et al, 1995;Lavie et al, 2004), and hence be reduced under increased cognitive load. This hypothesis should be tested in future behavioral and/or ERP studies, by using dual-task arrangements.…”