The N2 in go/no-go tasks reflects conflict monitoring not response inhibition.

By F. Donkers, Geert J. M. van Boxtel. Brain and Cognition, 2004

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Neurophysiology of performance monitoring and adaptive behavior. (2014, background): “It has been argued that the N2 increase in GoNogo tasks can be explained by a conflict between executing and inhibiting a response (146, 158, 378).”
Theta Lingua Franca: A Common Mid-Frontal Substrate for Action Monitoring Processes (2011, background): “As with the N2, infrequency and degree of mismatch modulate the FRN; however, it is unknown if these eliciting events reflect alterations of different underlying neural processes (Donkers, Nieuwenhuis, & van Boxtel, 2005; Donkers & van Boxtel, 2004; Holroyd, 2004).”
Neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive control: the role of prefrontal cortex in action selection, response inhibition, performance monitoring, and reward-based learning. (2004, background): “…activation in response to errors, reviewed above, and with evidence that RCZ is active on correct trials characterized by high pre-response conflict (Carter et al., 1998; Donkers & van Boxtel, 2004; Nieuwenhuis, Yeung, van den Wildenberg, & Ridderinkhof, 2003; Yeung, Botvinick, & Cohen, in press).”