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The Go/No-Go task is a foundational paradigm for measuring response inhibitionand impulse control. It assesses the ability to execute a response to one stimulus type while withholding responses to another.
By presenting frequent "Go" stimuli that establish a prepotent response, the task makes it challenging to inhibit responses to infrequent "No-Go" stimuli. Failures to inhibit (commission errors) indicate impulsivity or inhibitory control deficits.
Go Trial
Press the key
No-Go Trial
Withhold response
Ratio customizable in AssessKit
Mean reaction time on Go trials. Indicates processing speed.
Correct responses to Go trials. Measures sustained attention.
Commission errors (responding to No-Go). Key inhibition measure.
Signal detection measure combining hits and false alarms.
Visual builder with drag-and-drop. No programming needed.
Millisecond-accurate timing for reliable RT measurement.
Use shapes, letters, images, or emotional faces.
Automatic calculation of hits, false alarms, d-prime, and RT.
Basic paradigm with two stimulus types. Go to one (e.g., green), No-Go to another (e.g., blue).
Uses emotional stimuli (faces, words) to study emotion-cognition interactions and affective processing.
Includes cues that predict Go or No-Go trials, allowing study of proactive vs. reactive control.
Assess inhibitory deficits in ADHD populations across the lifespan.
Measure impulse control related to substance use and behavioral addictions.
Track development of inhibitory control from childhood through adolescence.
Popular paradigm for fMRI and EEG studies of inhibition circuits.
The Go/No-Go task measures response inhibition - the ability to withhold a prepotent response. Participants respond quickly to "Go" stimuli but must inhibit their response to "No-Go" stimuli. It is widely used to assess impulse control and behavioral inhibition.
Key measures include: Go accuracy (responding to Go trials), No-Go accuracy (successfully inhibiting on No-Go trials), commission errors (responding to No-Go), omission errors (failing to respond to Go), and reaction times. d-prime can also be calculated.
Common ratios are 70-80% Go trials and 20-30% No-Go trials. This creates a prepotent response tendency that makes inhibition more difficult. AssessKit lets you customize this ratio for your research needs.
In Go/No-Go, participants know before responding whether to go or inhibit. In the Stop Signal Task, a stop signal appears after the Go stimulus, requiring inhibition of an already-initiated response. Go/No-Go measures action restraint; Stop Signal measures action cancellation.
Yes. AssessKit supports image stimuli, so you can create emotional Go/No-Go tasks using faces (happy/sad/angry) or other affective images to study emotion-cognition interactions.
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