A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task

Frederick Verbruggen; Adam R Aron; Guido Ph Band; Christian Beste; Patrick G Bissett; Adam T Brockett; Joshua W Brown; Samuel R Chamberlain; Christopher D Chambers; Hans Colonius; Lorenza S Colzato; Brian D Corneil; James P Coxon; Annie Dupuis; Dawn M Eagle; Hugh Garavan; Ian Greenhouse; Andrew Heathcote; René J Huster; Sara Jahfari; J Leon Kenemans; Inge Leunissen; Gordon D Logan; Dora Matzke; Sharon Morein-Zamir; Aditya Murthy; Chiang-Shan R Li; Martin Paré; Russell A Poldrack; K Richard Ridderinkhof; Trevor W Robbins; Matthew Roesch; Katya Rubia; Russell J Schachar; Jeffrey D Schall; Ann-Kathrin Stock; Nicole C Swann; Katharine N Thakkar; Maurits W van der Molen; Luc Vermeylen; Matthijs Vink; Jan R Wessel; Robert Whelan; Bram B Zandbelt; C Nico Boehler

doi:10.7554/eLife.46323

A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task

Frederick Verbruggen
, Adam R Aron
, Guido Ph Band
, Christian Beste
, Patrick G Bissett
, Adam T Brockett
, Joshua W Brown
, Samuel R Chamberlain
, Christopher D Chambers
, Hans Colonius
, Lorenza S Colzato
, Brian D Corneil
, James P Coxon
, Annie Dupuis
, Dawn M Eagle
, Hugh Garavan
, Ian Greenhouse
, Andrew Heathcote
, René J Huster
, Sara Jahfari

J Leon Kenemans, Inge Leunissen, Gordon D Logan, Dora Matzke, Sharon Morein-Zamir, Aditya Murthy, Chiang-Shan R Li, Martin Paré, Russell A Poldrack, K Richard Ridderinkhof, Trevor W Robbins, Matthew Roesch, Katya Rubia, Russell J Schachar, Jeffrey D Schall, Ann-Kathrin Stock, Nicole C Swann, Katharine N Thakkar, Maurits W van der Molen, Luc Vermeylen, Matthijs Vink, Jan R Wessel, Robert Whelan, Bram B Zandbelt, C Nico Boehler

Ghent University
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
Leiden University
Cognitive Neurophysiology, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Stanford University
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, United States.
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Cambridge
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology, Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany.
Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Western University
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Vermont, United States.
University of Oregon, Eugene, United States.
Division of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
University of Oslo
Spinoza Centre Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Psychology Department, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, United States.
Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, United States.
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.
Department of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Radboud University Nijmegen

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Abstract

Response inhibition is essential for navigating everyday life. Its derailment is considered integral to numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders, and more generally, to a wide range of behavioral and health problems. Response-inhibition efficiency furthermore correlates with treatment outcome in some of these conditions. The stop-signal task is an essential tool to determine how quickly response inhibition is implemented. Despite its apparent simplicity, there are many features (ranging from task design to data analysis) that vary across studies in ways that can easily compromise the validity of the obtained results. Our goal is to facilitate a more accurate use of the stop-signal task. To this end, we provide twelve easy-to-implement consensus recommendations and point out the problems that can arise when these are not followed. Furthermore we provide user-friendly open-source resources intended to inform statistical-power considerations, facilitate the correct implementation of the task, and assist in proper data analysis.

Original language	English
Article number	e46323
Journal	eLife
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.46323
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Verbruggen, F., Aron, A. R., Band, G. P., Beste, C., Bissett, P. G., Brockett, A. T., Brown, J. W., Chamberlain, S. R., Chambers, C. D., Colonius, H., Colzato, L. S., Corneil, B. D., Coxon, J. P., Dupuis, A., Eagle, D. M., Garavan, H., Greenhouse, I., Heathcote, A., Huster, R. J., ... Boehler, C. N. (2019). A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task. eLife, 8, Article e46323. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.46323

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