Figure 1. Experimental design and behavioral performance of the selective stopping task.

(A) The task comprised three conditions: a GO condition (white arrow), a STOP condition (arrow changes color to blue), and an attentional capture GO (AC-GO) condition (arrow changes color to green). The variable stop signal delay (SSD) was adapted to the participants’ performance to yield a probability of 50% of successful response inhibitions per block. SSRT, stop signal reaction time, ACSD, attentional capture signal delay (analog to SSD). (B) Temporal region of interest (orange box) for latency and connectivity analysis starts at 100 ms, where early visual processing is likely complete and ends at SSRT_max (maximal SSRT across participants, 350 ms). (C) Reaction time (RT) and accuracy rate in correct GO (cGO), correct attentional capture GO (cAC-GO), and unsuccessful stop trials (uSTOP); mean ± standard error of the mean. ***p<0.001, based on Bonferroni-corrected post hoc comparisons of a repeated-measures ANOVA, n = 59.