Response inhibition triggered by the briefly viewed image of a hand: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence

Vainio, Lari; Alén, H.; Hiltunen, Sinikka; Lehikoinen, Kaisa; Lindbäck, H.; Patrikainen, A.; Paavilainen, Petri

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.004

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“…Specifically, a prime and a target were successively presented in each trial on a computer screen. Pictures of a left or right grasping hand were used as primes with the aim to activate left or right motor readiness (Vainio, 2011;Anelli et al, 2012;Vainio et al, 2013). Pictures of smooth gray/red rectangles and circles were used as safe targets.…”

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“…Note that the handedness of the prime and the target shape composed the prime-target congruency as one independent variable in the data analysis. Because the handedness of the prime may influence the target responses (Vainio, 2011;Vainio et al, 2013), a left-or righthand prime followed by a left-or right-hand response comprised the congruent condition, which may accelerate target responses. A left-or right-hand prime followed by a right-or left-hand response comprised the incongruent condition, which may delay target responses.…”

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Increasing Perceptual Salience Diminishes the Motor Interference Effect From Dangerous Objects

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“…It is worth noting that various studies have demonstrated that NCEs averaged over trials can be obtained with a number of response-unrelated stimuli, such as horizontal and vertical lines (Boy & Sumner, 2010), squares and diamonds (Eimer, 1999; Mattler, 2005), bidirectional arrows (Schlaghecken et al, 2007), and pictures of different emotional faces (Bennett et al, 2007) or hands (Vainio, 2011; Vainio et al, 2013) in the fixed task. However, no NCE averaged over trials was observed with letters and pictures of different gender faces in the present study.…”

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“…Rather, most stimuli do not contain such features (i.e., response-unrelated stimuli). Previous studies have demonstrated NCEs with response-unrelated stimuli, including simple nondirectional stimuli (e.g., horizontal and vertical lines, squares and diamonds, and bidirectional arrows; Boy & Sumner, 2010; Eimer, 1999; Schlaghecken et al, 2007) and more complex, realistic stimuli (e.g., pictures of different emotional faces or hands; Bennett, Lleras, Oriet, & Enns, 2007; Vainio, 2011; Vainio et al, 2013). The occurrence of NCEs with response-unrelated stimuli might be due to the strengthening of their S-R associations through practice.…”

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The internal temporal dynamic of unconscious inhibition related to weak stimulus–response associations

Wang

Zhao

Wang

2019

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Unconscious inhibition has generally been perceived to be dependent on stimulus–response (S-R) associations. Some research has shown that the inhibition related to strong associations increases with response latency to the target. Although this finding suggests that the inhibitory process may need time to unfold, its exact internal temporal dynamic remains to be elucidated. This study examined the role of spontaneous reaction time (RT) fluctuations on sensorimotor processes using letters (Experiments 1 and 2) and faces (Experiment 3), which are more ubiquitous in our environment and do not contain strong associations as stimuli in fixed and free-choice tasks. The results averaged across trials showed that there was no negative compatibility effect in either fixed or free-choice tasks. However, when trials were classified by their response latency, the results indicated that compatibility effects decreased and became negative with longer RTs in the fixed task. These results suggest that the internal temporal dynamic of unconscious inhibitory mechanisms related to fixed responses remains effective for stimuli that do not contain strong S-R associations.

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“…Exactly the same pattern of behavioural results was observed with the mug primes by Vainio et al (2011)-brief onset durations produced negative priming, and longer durations produced positive priming. Vainio et al (2013) used LRP to show that this effect is produced by similar motor self-inhibition processes to those for the BMP. That is, the LRP data revealed a pattern of motor activation that was in line with the motor self-inhibition hypothesis.…”

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Mug Handle Affordance and Automatic Response Inhibition: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Evidence

Vainio

Ala-Salomäki

Huovilainen

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Behavioural evidence has shown that the perception of an object's handle automatically activates the corresponding action representation. The activation appears to be inhibited if the object is a task-irrelevant prime mug that is presented very briefly prior to responding to the target arrow. The present study uses an electrophysiological indicator of automatic response priming, the lateralized readiness potential (LRP), to investigate the mechanisms of this inhibition effect. We presumed that this effect would reflect motor self-inhibition processes. The self-inhibition explanation of the effect would assume that the effect reflects activation-followed-by-inhibition observed rapidly after the offset of the prime at the primary motor cortex. However, the results showed that the effect is not associated with modulation of the early LRP deflections. In contrast, the inhibition manifested itself in the later LRP deflections that we assume to be linked to interference in the processing of response-related aspects of the target. We propose that the LRP pattern is similar to what would be predicted from the negative priming explanation of the effect. The study sheds light on understanding inhibition mechanisms associated with automatically activated affordance representations.

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Response inhibition triggered by the briefly viewed image of a hand: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Increasing Perceptual Salience Diminishes the Motor Interference Effect From Dangerous Objects

Increasing Perceptual Salience Diminishes the Motor Interference Effect From Dangerous Objects

The internal temporal dynamic of unconscious inhibition related to weak stimulus–response associations

Mug Handle Affordance and Automatic Response Inhibition: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Evidence

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