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When response inhibition is followed by response reengagement: an event-related fMRI study

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Boecker, Maren, Drueke, Barbara, Vorhold, Verena, Knops, Andre, Philippen, Bernd, Gauggel, Siegfried·2011·Human Brain Mapping

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In the course of daily living, changing environmental demands often make our actions, once initiated, unnecessary or even inappropriate. Under such circumstances, the ability to inhibit the obsolete action and to update behavior can be of vital importance. Previous lesion and neuroimaging studies have shown that the right prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia seem to play an important role in the inhibition of already initiated motor responses. The present study was designed to investigate whether the neural activity of inhibitory motor control was altered if the inhibition process was succeeded by an additional process, namely the reengagement into an alternative action. Therefore, cerebral blood oxygenation during performance of a stop-change paradigm was registered in 15 male participants using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. Data analysis showed, that during successful and failed stopping and changing (response inhibition and subsequent response reengagement) of initiated motor responses a very similar network was activated including primarily the right inferior frontal cortex (IFC). Besides, stopping-related activation in right IFC was significantly greater for fast inhibitors than for slow ones. Results of the present study thus further underline the important role of right IFC in response inhibition and suggest that the inhibition process functions similarly regardless whether changing task demands require the complete suppression of an already initiated motor response or its suppression and a subsequent response reengagement into an alternative action.

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  • HRT's competing response includes engagement in different motor actions, thereby activating different brain areas and cognitive structures.

    “Whilst both of these forms of competing response overlap functionally, in terms of depending on inhibitory brain mechanisms [45], the former relies on pure suppression (i.e. no response taking place), while the latter includes engagement in different motor actions , thereby activating different brain areas and cognitive structures [46 -51]”

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    In the StopChange results and Discussion (page unavailable), engaging an alternative motor response produced additional activation in motor, premotor and inferior parietal regions compared with stopping alone. The study tested a stop-change task, not habit reversal therapy (HRT), so it does not establish that HRT’s competing responses produce those activation differences. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Boecker, M., Drueke, B., Vorhold, V., Knops, A., Philippen, B., & Gauggel, S.
Affiliations
  • RWTH Aachen University (DE)
  • Universitätsklinikum Aachen (DE)
Venue
Human Brain Mapping
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-12-14
Volume
32
Issue
1
Pages
94-106
ISSN
  • 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0193
OpenAlex
W2077709757
Cited by
42
References
52
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
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1.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Keywords
response inhibition, right inferior frontal cortex, response switching, basal ganglia, right prefrontal cortex, cerebral oxygenation
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Inhibition, Psychological, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time

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