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Surprise: A More Realistic Framework for Studying Action Stopping?
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Surprise: A More Realistic Framework for Studying Action Stopping?

Jan R Wessel
Trends in cognitive sciences, Vol.22(9), pp.741-744
09/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.06.005
PMID: 30122169
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/7714639View
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Abstract

Motor inhibition enables rapid action stopping, even post initiation. When action stopping is anticipated (such as in laboratory stopping tasks), inhibition is engaged proactively. Such proactive inhibition changes the physiological implementation of action stopping. However, many real-world action-stopping scenarios involve little proactive inhibition. To investigate purely reactive inhibition, researchers need a different paradigm: studying surprise.
proactive control stop-signal task motor inhibition unexpected events

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