Context: To further our understanding of the function of conscious experience we need to know which cognitive processes require awareness and which do not. Here, we show that an unconscious stimulus can trigger inhibitory control processes, commonly ascribed to conscious control mechanisms. We combined the metacontrast masking paradigm and the Go/No-Go paradigm to study whether unconscious No-Go signals can actively trigger high-level inhibitory control processes, strongly associated with the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Behaviorally, unconscious No-Go signals sometimes triggered response inhibition to the level of complete response termination and yielded a slow down in the speed of responses that were not inhibited. Electroencephalographic
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Yes, I think so. "Go" means "do it" (do whatever action is being contemplated), and "No-Go" means "don't do it".
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Yes, I think so.
"Go" means "do it" (do whatever action is being contemplated), and "No-Go" means "don't do it".
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