Impulsivity and Inhibitory Control

Psychological Science - Tập 8 Số 1 - Trang 60-64 - 1997
Gordon D. Logan1, Russell A. Barkley2, Rosemary Tannock2
1U Illinois, Dept of Psychology, Champaign, IL, US
2Hospital for Sick Children

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We report an experiment testing the hypothesis that impulsive behavior reflects a deficit in the ability to inhibit prepotent responses Specifically, we examined whether impulsive people respond more slowly to signals to inhibit (stop signals) than non-impulsive people In this experiment, 136 undergraduate students completed an impulsivity questionnaire and then participated in a stop-signal experiment, in which they performed a choice reaction time (go) task and were asked to inhibit their responses to the go task when they heard a stop signal The delay between the go signal and the stop signal was determined by a tracking procedure designed to allow subjects to inhibit on 50% of the stop-signal trials Reaction time to the go signal did not vary with impulsivity, but estimated stop-signal reaction time was longer in more impulsive subjects, consistent with the hypothesis and consistent with results from populations with pathological problems with impulse control

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Psychological Science

Tập 8 Số 1

60-64

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