Cited by 215Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesFree Will and AgencyMotor Control and Adaptation

Neurocognitive mechanisms of action control: resisting the call of the Sirens.

Richard Ridderinkhof, K., Forstmann, Birte U., Wylie, Scott A., Burle, Borís, van den Wildenberg, Wery P. M.·2011·WIREs Cognitive Science

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An essential facet of adaptive and versatile behavior is the ability to prioritize actions in response to dynamically changing circumstances. The field of potential actions afforded by a situation is shaped by many factors, such as environmental demands, past experiences, and prepotent tendencies. Selection among action affordances can be driven by deliberate, intentional processes as a product of goal‐directed behavior and by extraneous stimulus–action associations as established inherently or through learning. We first review the neurocognitive mechanisms putatively linked to these intention‐driven and association‐driven routes of action selection. Next, we review the neurocognitive mechanisms engaged to inhibit action affordances that are no longer relevant or that interfere with goal‐directed action selection. Optimal action control is viewed as a dynamic interplay between selection and suppression mechanisms, which is achieved by an elaborate circuitry of interconnected cortical regions (most prominently the pre‐supplementary motor area and the right inferior frontal cortex) and basal ganglia structures (most prominently the dorsal striatum and the subthalamic nucleus). WIREs Cogni Sci 2011 2 174–192 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.99 This article is categorized under: Psychology > Attention Neuroscience > Cognition

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  • Frontostriatal circuits capitalizing on inferior frontal cortex, pre-SMA, and basal ganglia are engaged when impulsive actions are to be interrupted, aborted, suppressed, or overridden by more appropriate actions, even when action control is triggered unconsciously.

    “Frontostriatal circuits in the brain, capitalizing on the inferior frontal cortex, the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), and the basal ganglia, are engaged when impulsive actions are to be interrupted, aborted, suppressed, or overridden by more appropriate actions (Jahfari et al., 2011; Ridderinkhof et al., 2011), even when such action control is triggered unconsciously (van Gaal et al., 200”

    From Impulsive action: emotional impulses and their control (2014) · cites this paper as Ridderinkhof et al., 2011

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Authors
Richard Ridderinkhof, K., Forstmann, B. U., Wylie, S. A., Burle, B., & van den Wildenberg, W. P. M.
Affiliations
  • Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging (NL)
  • University of Virginia (US)
Venue
WIREs Cognitive Science
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-07-13
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
174-192
ISSN
  • 1939-5078 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-5086
OpenAlex
W2098534654
Cited by
215
References
161
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7.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed
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  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science (publishedVersion)
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Keywords
action control, action selection, response inhibition, prepotent response, goal-directed behavior, pre-supplementary motor area, right inferior frontal cortex, basal ganglia, dorsal striatum, subthalamic nucleus, cortical-subcortical interactions, neurocognitive mechanisms

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