Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest into putative brain mechanisms for exerting inhibitory control onto a variety of processes and representations, including in the domain of action initiation, attention, emotion and memory. In June 2019, a session of the International Neuropsychological Symposium held in Vietri, Italy, was dedicated to these issues. This Special Issue mainly contains contributions to this session, with some additional material. The contributions present abundant behavioral, modeling, neural and clinical evidence about the various dedicated inhibitory systems of the brain. The distinct role of these systems is to inhibit certain processes or representations, depending on the given circumstances (and whose function likely depends as much on inhibitory neurons as it does on excitatory ones). In other words, the brain must sometimes rely on these systems to (rapidly and actively) inhibit e or stop e unwanted motor responses, undesirable thoughts and memories, or the attentional deployment to distracting stimuli. The scope of this Special Issue is to provide an up-to-date landscape of such mechanisms. The growing body of research in this domain has not only provided exciting new empirical findings by means of different techniques and model systems but has also stimulated hot debates at the theoretical level.
The Brain's brake: Inhibitory mechanisms in cognition and action
Giuseppe di Pellegrino;
2022
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest into putative brain mechanisms for exerting inhibitory control onto a variety of processes and representations, including in the domain of action initiation, attention, emotion and memory. In June 2019, a session of the International Neuropsychological Symposium held in Vietri, Italy, was dedicated to these issues. This Special Issue mainly contains contributions to this session, with some additional material. The contributions present abundant behavioral, modeling, neural and clinical evidence about the various dedicated inhibitory systems of the brain. The distinct role of these systems is to inhibit certain processes or representations, depending on the given circumstances (and whose function likely depends as much on inhibitory neurons as it does on excitatory ones). In other words, the brain must sometimes rely on these systems to (rapidly and actively) inhibit e or stop e unwanted motor responses, undesirable thoughts and memories, or the attentional deployment to distracting stimuli. The scope of this Special Issue is to provide an up-to-date landscape of such mechanisms. The growing body of research in this domain has not only provided exciting new empirical findings by means of different techniques and model systems but has also stimulated hot debates at the theoretical level.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
