OSARI, an Open-Source Anticipated Response Inhibition Task

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

doi:10.3758/s13428-021-01680-9

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.

Highlights

The stop-signal paradigm has become ubiquitous in investigations of inhibitory control
The capacity to enact behavioral inhibition varies across the lifespan and has been identified to be affected in a wide variety of clinical cohorts (Lijffijt et al, 2005; Lipszyc & Schachar, 2010; Smith et al, 2014; Williams et al, 1999), including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (Barkley, 1997) and developmental coordination disorder (He et al, 2018)
While many investigators have favored the use of choice-reaction variants of the stop-signal task, an increasing number of studies have adopted anticipated-response inhibition (ARI) tasks

Summary

Introduction

The stop-signal paradigm has become ubiquitous in investigations of inhibitory control. Participants are prompted to inhibit their motor response upon the presentation of a stop signal.

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