In humans, impaired response inhibition is characteristic of a wide range of psychiatric diseases and of normal aging. It is hypothesised that the right inferior frontal cortex plays a key role by inhibiting the motor cortex via the basal ganglia. The electroencephalography-derived beta rhythm (15-29 Hz) is thought to reflect communication within this network, with increased right frontal beta power often observed prior to successful response inhibition. Recent literature suggests that averaging spectral power obscures the transient, burst-like nature of beta activity. There is evidence that the rate of beta bursts following a Stop signal is higher when a motor response is successfully inhibited. However, other characteristics of beta burst events, and their topographical properties, have not yet been examined. Here, we used a large human (male and female) electroencephalography Stop Signal Task dataset (n=218) to examine averaged normalised beta power, beta burst rate and beta burst ‘volume’ (which we def...