The stop signal task, which involves learning to generate or withhold motor responses, captures core elements of most motor and cognitive learning and has real-world relevance.

“the tasks that are used in these studies really Target the specific neural circuits that is the same neural circuits that you would use for the performance of essentially any motor task now of course other motor tasks like ones where you involve your feet or cognitive tasks where you have to think really hard about specific information and search for that information assemble it in particular ways of course involve other neurons and neural circuits that we haven't discussed today but the core components of these go and no-go tasks or the stop signal task really capture the core elements of most all of cognitive endoor motor learning in some way that's fundamentally important okay so they have real world relevance”