OSARI, an Open-Source Anticipated Response Inhibition Task

Jason L. He, Rebecca J. Hirst, Rohan Puri, James Coxon, Winston Byblow, Mark Hinder, Patrick Skippen, Dora Matzke, Andrew Heathcote, Corey G. Wadsley, Tim Silk, Christian Hyde, Dinisha Parmar, Ernest Pedapati, Donald L. Gilbert, David A. Huddleston, Stewart Mostofsky, Inge Leunissen, Hayley J. MacDonald, Nahian S. ChowdhuryMatthew Gretton, Tess Nikitenko, Bram Zandbelt, Luke Strickland, Nicolaas A.J. Puts

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Abstract

The stop-signal paradigm has become ubiquitous in investigations of inhibitory control. Tasks inspired by the paradigm, referred to as stop-signal tasks, require participants to make responses on go trials and to inhibit those responses when presented with a stop-signal on stop trials. Currently, the most popular version of the stop-signal task is the ‘choice-reaction’ variant, where participants make choice responses, but must inhibit those responses when presented with a stop-signal. An alternative to the choice-reaction variant of the stop-signal task is the ‘anticipated response inhibition’ task. In anticipated response inhibition tasks, participants are required to make a planned response that coincides with a predictably timed event (such as lifting a finger from a computer key to stop a filling bar at a predefined target). Anticipated response inhibition tasks have some advantages over the more traditional choice-reaction stop-signal tasks and are becoming increasingly popular. However, currently, there are no openly available versions of the anticipated response inhibition task, limiting potential uptake. Here, we present an open-source, free, and ready-to-use version of the anticipated response inhibition task, which we refer to as the OSARI (the Open-Source Anticipated Response Inhibition) task.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1530-1540
Number of pages11
JournalBehavior Research Methods
Volume54
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2022

Keywords

  • Behavioral Inhibition
  • Inhibition
  • Stopping
  • anticipation
  • executive functioning
  • opensource
  • stop-signal task

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Psychology (miscellaneous)
  • General Psychology

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