Madeline O Carlson

Jan 30, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Joshua R. Tatz |Carson Lovig |Jan R. Wessel |Madeline O Carlson

AbstractStopping initiated actions is fundamental to adaptive behavior. Longstanding, single-process accounts of action-stopping have been challenged by recent, two-process, 'pause-then-cancel' models. These models propose that action-stopping involves two inhibitory processes: 1) a fast Pause process, which broadly suppresses the motor system as the result of detecting any salient event, and 2) a slower Cancel process, which involves motor suppression specific to the cancelled action.