Inhibitory control is a fundamental mechanism underlying flexible behavior and features in theories across many areas of cognitive and psychological science. However, whereas many theories implicitly or explicitly assume that inhibitory control is a domain-general process, the vast majority of neuroscientific work has hitherto focused on individual domains, such as motor, mnemonic, or attentional inhibition. Here, we attempt to close this gap by highlighting recent work that demonstrates shared neuroanatomical and neurophysiological signatures of inhibitory control across domains. We propose that the regulation of thalamocortical drive by a fronto-subthalamic mechanism operating in the β band might be a domain-general mechanism for inhibitory control in the human brain.

抑制控制是灵活行为背后的基本机制，也是认知和心理科学许多领域的理论特征。然而，尽管许多理论隐含或明确地假设抑制控制是一个通用领域的过程，但迄今为止，绝大多数神经科学工作都集中在单个领域，例如运动、记忆或注意力抑制。在这里，我们试图通过强调最近的工作来缩小这一差距，这些工作展示了跨领域抑制控制的共同神经解剖学和神经生理学特征。我们提出，通过在 β 带运行的额底丘脑机制对丘脑皮质驱动的调节可能是人脑抑制控制的域通用机制。