title: Cortical control and performance monitoring of interrupting and redirecting movements.
abstract: Voluntary behaviour requires control mechanisms that ensure our ability to act independently of habitual and innate response tendencies. Electrophysiological experiments, using the stop-signal task in humans, monkeys and rats, have uncovered a core network of brain structures that is essential for response inhibition. This network is shared across mammals and seems to be conserved throughout their evolution. Recently, new research building on these earlier findings has started to investigate the interaction between response inhibition and other control mechanisms in the brain. Here we describe recent progress in three different areas: selectivity of movement inhibition across different motor systems, re-orientation of motor actions and action evaluation.This article is part of the themed issue 'Movement suppression: brain mechanisms for stopping and stillness'.
authors.affiliation: CNRS UMR 7225, ICM, UMR S975, Université Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris 6, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France pierre.pouget@upmc.fr.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4721-7376
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pouget
authors.affiliation: Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Aditya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murthy
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience and Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
authors.forename: Veit
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stuphorn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D009068:Movement; D009949:Orientation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D051381:Rats
keywords: inhibition; monitoring; redirecting