RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Effects of Response Readiness and Error Monitoring on Saccade Countermanding
Yuan-Chi Tseng1, 2, Chiang-Shan Ray Li1, 3, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 1
First Page: 18
Last Page: 25
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-1-18
DOI: 10.2174/1874350100801010018
Article History:
Received Date: 12/23/2007Revision Received Date: 18/01/2008
Acceptance Date: 18/03/2008
Electronic publication date: 1/4/2008
Collection year: 2008
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Abstract
The stop-signal task (SST) and anti-saccade tasks are both widely used to explore cognitive inhibitory control. Our previous work on a manual SST showed that subjects’ readiness to respond to the go signal and the extent to which subjects monitor their errors need to be considered in order to attribute impaired performance to deficits in response inhibition. Here we examine whether these same task-related variables similarly influence oculomotor SST and anti-saccade performance. Thirty-six and sixty healthy, adult subjects participated in an oculomotor SST and anti-saccade task, respectively, in which the fore-period (FP) of imperative stimulus varied randomly from trial to trial. We computed a FP effect to index response readiness to the imperative stimulus and a post-error slowing (PES) effect to index error monitoring. Contrary to what we had anticipated, other than a weak but negative association between the FP effect and anti-saccade errors, these behavioral variables did not correlate with SST or anti-saccade performance.
