Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies in humans have shown that many
behaviors engage processes that suppress excitability within the corticospinal tract …

Preparing actions requires the operation of several cognitive control processes that
influence the state of the motor system to ensure that the appropriate behavior is ultimately …

Motor system excitability is transiently inhibited during the preparation of responses.
Previous studies have attributed this inhibition to the operation of two mechanisms, one …

The motor system displays strong changes in neural activity during action preparation. In the
past decades, several techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) …

For flexible goal-directed behavior, prioritizing and selecting a specific action among
multiple candidates are often important. Working memory has long been assumed to play a …

In our everyday behavior, we frequently cancel one movement while continuing others. Two
competing models have been suggested for the cancellation of such specific actions:(1) the …

Action preparation is characterized by a set of complex and distributed processes that occur
in multiple brain areas. Interestingly, dual-coil transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a …

Individuals differ in the intrinsic excitability of their corticospinal pathways and, perhaps more
generally, their entire nervous system. At present, we have little understanding of the …

Current theories consider motor imagery, the mental representation of action, to have
considerable functional overlap with the processes involved in actual movement preparation …

In this study, we examined the dynamics of inhibitory preparatory processes, using a
delayed response task in which a cue signaled a left or right index finger (Experiment 1) or …