AUTHOR=Kang Weixi , Hernández Sònia Pineda , Rahman Md. Shahinoor , Voigt Katharina , Malvaso Antonio 

TITLE=Inhibitory Control Development: A Network Neuroscience Perspective

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.651547

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.651547

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=As one of the core executive functions, inhibition plays an important role in human life
through development. Inhibitory control is defined as the ability to suppress irrelevant thoughts
and information from the external environment but focus on whatever is relevant to our goals.
Contemporary neuroscience has investigated the underlying neural mechanisms of inhibitory
control. Controversy starts to arise which resulted in two schools of thought: a modulatory and a
globalist account of inhibitory control. More recently, growing interest tries to understand
developmental mechanisms in inhibitory control using a variety of functional imaging methods.
In this review, we survey developmental mechanisms in inhibitory control and argue against the
modulatory perspective of inhibitory control: the improvement in inhibitory control does not
depend on a dedicated region such as the rIFG, but rely on the developments of a more broadly
distributed system.