Dissociation of prepotent response inhibition and interference control in problematic internet use: evidence from the Go/No-Go and Flanker tasks

Table 2 Task performance on the Go/No-Go and Flanker tasks

Measures	Variables	Stimulus type	PIU group (n = 30)	Control group (n = 30)^a
Measures	Variables	Stimulus type	M ± SD	M ± SD
The Go/No-Go task
	RTs (Go trials) (ms)	Internet-related	478 ± 47	475 ± 47
	RTs (Go trials) (ms)	Internet-unrelated	469 ± 53	456 ± 44
	ACC (No-Go trials)	Internet-related	0.83 ± 0.08	0.83 ± 0.08
	ACC (No-Go trials)	Internet-unrelated	0.91 ± 0.07	0.92 ± 0.05
The Flanker task
	Congruent RTs (ms)	Internet-related	596 ± 36	611 ± 48
	Congruent RTs (ms)	Internet-unrelated	609 ± 46	618 ± 50
	Incongruent RTs (ms)	Internet-related	617 ± 40	634 ± 50
	Incongruent RTs (ms)	Internet-unrelated	634 ± 48	625 ± 45
	Congruent ACC	Internet-related	0.93 ± 0.05	0.92 ± 0.08
	Congruent ACC	Internet-unrelated	0.92 ± 0.07	0.90 ± 0.07
	Incongruent ACC	Internet-related	0.86 ± 0.07	0.85 ± 0.10
	Incongruent ACC	Internet-unrelated	0.86 ± 0.08	0.85 ± 0.08

^a One participant from the control group was excluded from the analyses of the Flanker task because the accuracy was lower than 50%.

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