Surprise: A More Realistic Framework for Studying Action Stopping?

Publication date: Available online 4 July 2018
Source:Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Author(s): Jan R. Wessel
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.



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