مطالعه رفتار سازشی: اثرات سن و اطلاعات نامربوط بر روی توانایی مهار اعمال شخص

Stop task performance was hypothesized to be influenced further by the effects of irrelevant information. In a concurrent reaction time task, distractor stimuli may induce activation of an incorrect response. The subsequent inhibition of this incorrect response activation may interact with the suppression of responses in the stop task, if both are engaged simultaneously. Indeed, in a study designed to examine this prediction, the operation of response inhibition in the primary-task and stop processes affected one another negatively when distractors were associated with the incorrect response.