Electrophysiological evidence for temporal overlap among contingent mental processes.

Miller, Jeff; Hackley, Steven A.

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“…This finding agrees with results of several other studies that have reported small LRPs in go/no-go tasks (e.g. Ilan and Miller, 1999;Miller and Hackley, 1992;Osman et al, 1989). Brain potential evidence also suggests cortical involvement in no-go processing; evidence that would implicate the central mechanism.…”

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A psychophysiological analysis of inhibitory motor control in the stop-signal paradigm

Boxtel

Molen

Jennings

et al. 2001

Biological Psychology

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A psychophysiological analysis of inhibitory motor control in the stop-signal paradigm van Boxtel, Geert; van der Molen, M.; Jennings, J.R.; Brunia, Cees General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractWe examined two potential inhibitory mechanisms for stopping a motor response. Participants performed a standard visual two-choice task in which visual stop signals and no-go signals were presented on a small proportion of the trials. Psychophysiological measures were taken during task performance to examine the time course of response activation and inhibition. The results were consistent with a horse race model previously proposed to account for data obtained using a stop-signal paradigm. The pattern of psychophysiological responses was similar on stop-signal and no-go trials suggesting that the same mechanism may initiate inhibitory control in both situations. We found a distinct frontal brain wave suggesting that inhibitory motor control is instigated from the frontal cortex. The results are best explained in terms of a single, centrally located inhibition mechanism. Results are discussed in terms of current neurophysiological knowledge.

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A psychophysiological analysis of inhibitory motor control in the stop-signal paradigm

Boxtel

Molen

Jennings

et al. 2001

Biological Psychology

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177

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“…The LRP data showed that participants began to prepare responses based on the easy dimension (location), and that they terminated the preparation at different times, depending on when information from the form dimension became available, indicating that both stimulus attributes were processed simultaneously rather than in a serial manner. Another important complement of our study assessed perceptual-motor transmission of stimulus information in a choice reaction task with no-go trials (Miller & Hackley, 1992). When stimuli varied in shape and size, LRPs in no-go trials suggested that easily recognized shape information initiated response preparation and that this preparation was aborted when size analysis signified that the response should be withheld, contrary to assumptions of discrete models of perceptual-motor information transmission.…”

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“…In the present study, we focused on the assessment of the N2c and P3a components of the ERP in the no-go trials, but we also measured the SN, P3b, and P2a. Earlier scientific studies that explored the nature of this transmission of information were mainly based on the LRP (Miller & Hackley, 1992;Osman et al, 1992). Future studies should pursue an integrative approach in which the N2c, P3a, SN, P3b, P2a, and the LRP are considered simultaneously.…”

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“…Overall, these ERP data ought to be regarded as converging evidence against fully discrete models of information transmission between stimulus recognition and response preparation (Miller & Hackley, 1992;Osman et al, 1992). We derived the enhancement prediction from the ADC model (Miller, 1982(Miller, , 1983, according to which response preparation can begin only after recognition processes have activated a code (Posner, 1978) used in categorizing a stimulus.…”

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Event-related brain potentials and cognitive processes related to perceptual—motor information transmission

Kopp

Wessel

2010

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded to investigate cognitive processes related to the partial transmission of information from stimulus recognition to response preparation. Participants classified two-dimensional visual stimuli with dimensions size and form. One feature combination was designated as the go-target, whereas the other three feature combinations served as no-go distractors. Size discriminability was manipulated across three experimental conditions. N2c and P3a amplitudes were enhanced in response to those distractors that shared the feature from the faster dimension with the target. Moreover, N2c and P3a amplitudes showed a crossover effect: Size distractors evoked more pronounced ERPs under high size discriminability, but form distractors elicited enhanced ERPs under low size discriminability. These results suggest that partial perceptual-motor transmission of information is accompanied by acts of cognitive control and by shifts of attention between the sources of conflicting information. Selection negativity findings imply adaptive allocation of visual feature-based attention across the two stimulus dimensions.

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“…This arrangement, in turn, depends on the specific details of an experiment, e.g. the task (Meyer et al, 1985), the stimuli (Miller and Hackley, 1992), and subjects' strategies (Smid et al, 1995). In the present case, we saw how a mapping manipulation, though it barely affected RT, could shift processes between the two LRP intervals.…”

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Temporal organization of covert motor processes during response selection and preparation

Osman¹,

Moore²,

Ulrich³

2003

Biological Psychology

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Onset of a movement-related brain potential (lateralized readiness potential, LRP) was used to divide reaction time (RT) into two intervals: (1) stimulus onset to LRP onset, and (2) LRP onset to onset of the overt response. Effects on these intervals of advance information about the to-be-signaled response and of the mapping between fingers and response buttons were examined. These effects were used to reach conclusions about the organization of response preparation and about the identity of the processes influenced by advance information. In the absence of advance information, response preparation involved two steps. First, two of the four possible response alternatives were prepared, then one of these two was prepared further. Which pair of responses was prepared during the first step depended on the spatial arrangement of the fingers on the buttons, rather than on any common anatomical feature. Advance information about the upcoming response allowed the first step to be performed prior to the response signal, thus removing its contribution to RT. The second step, however, remained unaffected.

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Electrophysiological evidence for temporal overlap among contingent mental processes.

Cited by 234 publications

References 48 publications

A psychophysiological analysis of inhibitory motor control in the stop-signal paradigm

A psychophysiological analysis of inhibitory motor control in the stop-signal paradigm

Event-related brain potentials and cognitive processes related to perceptual—motor information transmission

Temporal organization of covert motor processes during response selection and preparation

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