Table 1.

Studies and contrasts included in the meta-analysis

Year	First author	Journal	Task	Contrasts	Foci (n)
1998	Konishi	European Journal of Neuroscience	GNGT	1. No–go dominant foci	19
1999	Garavan	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA	GNGT	1. Response inhibition	14
2000	de Zubicaray	Neuropsychologia	GNGT	1. Linear increases	26
				2. Linear increases with number of trials equated per block
2000	Kiehl	Psychophysiology	GNGT	1. Task 1, correct rejects	8
2001	Braver	Cerebral Cortex	GNGT	1. Disjunction analysis	19
2001	Liddle	Human Brain Mapping	GNGT	1. Correct no-go − baseline	42
				2. Correct no-go − go
2001	Menon	Human Brain Mapping	GNGT	1. Go/no–go − go	13
2001	Rubia	NeuroImage	GNGT, SST	1. Generic go/no-go activation	27
				2. Generic stop activation
				3. Activation common to all go/no-go and stop task versions
2002	Garavan	NeuroImage	GNGT	1. Successful no-gos	16
2002	Watanabe	NeuroImage	GNGT	1. Areas activated during no-go phase	9
				2. Specific activation areas during no-go phase
2003	Garavan	NeuroImage	GNGT	1. Event-related stops	7
2003	Horn	Neuropsychologia	GNGT	1. Go/no-go > go	14
2003	Maguire	NeuroImage	GNGT	1. Go/no-go versus fixation	16
				2. Go/no-go versus go
2003	Mostofsky	Cognitive Brain Research	GNGT	1. Primary no-go effects	6
				2. Primary counting no-go effects
2003	Rubia	NeuroImage	SST	1. Successful inhibition − unsuccessful inhibition	2
2004	Asahi	European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience	GNGT	1. Response inhibition	11
2004	Bellgrove	Neuropsychologia	GNGT	1. Response inhibition	19
2004	Fassbender	Cognitive Brain Research	GNGT	1. Activations for correct inhibitions	8
2004	Hester	Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience	GNGT	1. Cued and uncued successful response inhibition	21
2004	Kelly	European Journal of Neuroscience	GNGT	1. Fast and slow successful response inhibitions	23
2005	Altshuler	Biological Psychiatry	GNGT	1. No-go > go, normals	4
2005	Maltby	NeuroImage	GNGT	1. Correct inhibition, normals	5
2005	Ramautar	Brain Research	SST	1. SST versus NST	7
2005	Vink	Human Brain Mapping	SST	1. Go/stop > go only	6
				2. Correct > incorrect stop
2006	Aron	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Stop inhibit − go	48
				2. Stop inhibit − stop respond
2006	Li	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Successful compared with failed inhibition	9
2006	Li	NeuroImage	SST	1. Successful stop > failed stop, men	18
				2. successful stop > failed stop, women
2006	Rubia	Human Brain Mapping	GNGT	1. Go/no-go task, adults	11
2007	Aron	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Critical stop inhibit versus critical go	38
2007	Chevrier	Human Brain Mapping	SST	1. Successful stop-phase activities	3
2007	Kaladjian	Schizophrenia Research	GNGT	1. Correct no-go trials versus correct go trials, healthy controls	11
2007	Langenecker	Biological Psychiatry	GNGT	1. Activation in response to correct rejections, healthy controls	8
2007	Leung	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Conjunction stop–go	7
2007	Roth	Biological Psychiatry	GNGT	1. Response inhibition, normals	13
2008	Falconer	Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience	GNGT	1. No-go − go, normals	6
2008	Marco-Pallares	Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience	SST	1. Inhibited trials versus correct responses	10
2008	McNab	Neuropsychologia	GNGT	1. No-go > oddball (go/no-go)	65
				2. No-go > go
				3. Stop > oddball (stop task)
				4. Stop > go
2008	Xue	Cerebral Cortex	SST	1. Stop Inhibit–go, manual	13
2008	Zheng	Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience	GNGT, SST	1. No-go − go (go/no-go)	18
				2. Stop − go (stop signal)
2009	Baglio	Neurobiology of Aging	GNGT	1. No-go versus fixation, healthy controls	5
2009	Cai	Brain Research	SST	1. Color SS–go	22
				2. Orientation SS–go
2009	Chikazoe	Cerebral Cortex	GNGT	1. No-go versus frequent–go	104
				2. No-go versus infrequent–go
2009	Chikazoe	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Stop versus uncertain–go	73
				2. Stop versus uncertain–go but not uncertain–go versus certain–go
2009	Kaladjian	Bipolar Disorders	GNGT	1. No-go versus go, healthy controls, T1	20
				2. No-go versus go, healthy controls, T2
2009	Kaladjian	Psychiatry Research	GNGT	1. No-go > go, correct responses, healthy controls	16
2009	Mazzola-Pomietto	Journal of Psychiatric Research	GNGT	1. Significant with-group activation during response inhibition in healthy comparison subjects	7
1998	Konishi	European Journal of Neuroscience	GNGT	1. No–go dominant foci	19
2009	Padmala	Neuropsychologia	SST	1. Successful > Unsuccessful	14
2009	Welander-Vatn	Bipolar Disorders	GNGT	1. Go/no-go > fixation, healthy controls	12
2010	Boecker	Human Brain Mapping	SST	1. Successful inhibit–go	13
2010	Boehler	NeuroImage	SST	1. SST SR > GT SR	33
				2. SST SR > UST SR
2010	Hendrick	PLoS onE	SST	1. Stop compared with go trials	18
2010	Passarotti	Psychiatry Research	SST	1. Stop > go, healthy controls	5
2010	Sharp	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA	SST	1. Stop correct against go	16
				2. Stop correct against continue
2010	Simoes-Franklin	Human Brain Mapping	GNGT	1. Neutral go/no-go versus punishment go/no-go, successful Inhibitions	17
2011	Cai	PLoS One	SST	1. SST–all stop > SST–go	63
				2. SST–successful stop > SST–go
				3. SST–successful stop > SST–unsuccessful stop
2011	Jahfari	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Successful stop versus go none	7
2011	Sagaspe	NeuroImage	SST	1. (Stop inhibit + stop respond) > go	39
				2. Stop inhibit > stop respond
2012	de Wit	American Journal of Psychiatry	SST	1. Main effect of inhibition, comparison subjects	10
2012	Hendrick	Obesity	SST	1. Stop compared with go trials for lean subjects	23
2012	Hughes	Biological Psychiatry	SST	1. Stops > baseline, controls	5
2012	Sebastian	Psychiatry Research: NeuroImaging	GNGT, SST	1. No-go/go, control group	47
				2. Stop–go, control group
2012	Swann	NeuroImage	SST	1. MS–SS versus MS–go	18
2012	Townsend	Bipolar Disorders	GNGT	1. No-go − go, healthy controls	24
2013	Cai	Human Brain Mapping	SST	1. Conjunction stop–go	33
				2. Conjunction successful stop–Go
2013	Hughes	Behavioural Brain Research	SST	1. Stop inhibit > baseline	6
				2. Stop inhibit > stop respond
2013	Montojo	Cerebral Cortex	SST	1. Successful stopping, controls	5
2013	Tabu	NeuroImage	SST	1. Stop success versus go in hand	15
2014	Berkman	Journal of Neuroscience	SST	1. Stop > go at T1	31
2014	Congdon	Psychiatry Research: NeuroImaging	SST	1. Stop inhibit–go, control	4
2014	Schel	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience	SST	1. Stop successful > go successful	13

NST, Not-Stop task; SS, Successful Stop; T1, Time point 1; T2, Time point 2; SST_SR, Successful Stop trial in Stop-relevant block; GT_SR, Go trial in Stop-relevant block; UST_SR, Unsuccessful Stop trial in Stop-relevant block; MS, Maybe Stop.