• DOI:10.1177/1073858407299288
Corpus ID: 41427583

The Neural Basis of Inhibition in Cognitive Control

@article{Aron2007TheNB,
  title={The Neural Basis of Inhibition in Cognitive Control},
  author={A. Aron},
  journal={The Neuroscientist},
  year={2007},
  volume={13},
  pages={214 - 228}
}

A. Aron

Published 2007

Psychology, Medicine

The Neuroscientist

The concept of “inhibition” is widely used in synaptic, circuit, and systems neuroscience, where it has a clear meaning because it is clearly observable. The concept is also ubiquitous in psychology. One common use is to connote an active/willed process underlying cognitive control. Many authors claim that subjects execute cognitive control over unwanted stimuli, task sets, responses, memories, and emotions by inhibiting them, and that frontal lobe damage induces distractibility, impulsivity… CONTINUE READING

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