Noninvasive stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates the inhibition of motivated responding. Academic Article

abstract

• Self-control involves the inhibition of dominant response tendencies. Most research on self-control has examined the inhibition of appetitive tendencies, and recent evidence suggests that stimulation to increase right frontal cortical activity helps to inhibit approach-motivated responses. The current experiment paired an approach-avoidance joystick task with transcranial DC stimulation to test the effects of brain stimulation on the inhibition of both approach and avoidance response tendencies. Anodal stimulation over the right/cathodal stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (compared to the opposite pattern of stimulation or sham stimulation) caused participants to initiate motive-incongruent movements more quickly, thereby suggesting a shared neural mechanism for the self-control of both approach- and avoidance-motivated impulses. (PsycINFO Database Record

authors

• Schmeichel, Brandon

published proceedings

• J Exp Psychol Gen

altmetric score

• 1.25

author list (cited authors)

• Kelley, N. J., & Schmeichel, B. J

citation count

• 16

complete list of authors

• Kelley, Nicholas J||Schmeichel, Brandon J

publication date

• December 2016

publisher

• American Psychological Association (APA)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Female
• Humans
• Inhibition, Psychological
• Male
• Motivation
• Prefrontal Cortex
• Reaction Time
• Self-control
• Students
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
• Young Adult

PubMed Central ID

• 27736129

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1037/xge0000238

start page

• 1702

end page

• 1712

volume

• 145

issue

• 12

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1037%2Fxge0000238