{"id":8474,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_inhibition\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:06","slug":"motor_inhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_inhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor inhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to inhibit a behavioral response or action, and involving widespread regions of the brain (but especially the prefrontal cortex). &nbsp;It assessed by response inhibition tasks such as the go\/no go task as the Stroop test, and constitutes an important expression of executive functioning. &nbsp;When this ability becomes impaired, it manifests itself in disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity, autism, and Tourette&#8217;s syndrome. &nbsp;Another executive function is switching to a different response. &nbsp;By means of functional brain imaging, it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/30\/25\/8512.full\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/30\/25\/8512.full&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shown<\/a> that response switching and motor inhibition are supported by the same neural systems (mainly involving the presupplementary motor area). &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder_-adhd-\">Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)<\/a>, <a href=\"autism\">Autism<\/a>, Executive function, <a href=\"frontal_cortex\">Frontal cortex<\/a>, Functional brain imaging (fMRI), Go\/no go task, <a href=\"inhibitory_control\">Inhibitory control<\/a>, <a href=\"prefrontal_cortex_-pfc-\">Prefrontal cortex (PFC)<\/a>, <a href=\"response_inhibition_tasks\">Response inhibition tasks<\/a>, <a href=\"stroop_test\">Stroop test<\/a>, <a href=\"tourette-s_syndrome\">Tourette&#8217;s syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to inhibit a behavioral response or action, and involving widespread regions of the brain (but especially the prefrontal cortex). &nbsp;It assessed by response inhibition tasks such as the go\/no go task as the Stroop test, and constitutes an important expression of executive functioning. &nbsp;When this ability becomes impaired, it manifests itself in disorders &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/motor_inhibition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motor inhibition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}