Electrophysiological correlates related to the conflict adaptation effect in an emotional conflict task

Xue, Sichuang; Ren, Guofang; Kong, Xiangzhi; Liu, Jia; Qiu, Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2014.10.019

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“…For instance, Shen et al (2013) observed increased negativity for incongruent than for congruent trials at the time widow of 350-550 ms (N350–550) and enhanced positivity for incongruent than for congruent trials at the time window of 700-800 ms (conflict SP). A similar pattern of results was also obtained in Xue et al (2015) using the same emotional face–word Stroop task. Three other studies also employed the emotional face–word Stroop paradigm to examine the neural correlates of emotional conflict in L1 processing (i.e., Zhu et al, 2010; Baggott et al, 2011; Zhu and Luo, 2012).…”

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“…They were asked to respond as quickly and accurately as possible to the facial expressions of emotion by pressing a button corresponding to fearful (left index finger) or happy expression (right index finger). Following the paradigm of previous studies (Zhu et al, 2010; Shen et al, 2013; Xue et al, 2015), the presentation of a fixation “+” for 500 ms, was followed by a blank screen ISI for a randomized duration of 400 or 600 ms. We considered this time interval could help the participants to get better prepared for the face–word compound stimuli presented in the screen. Then, the face–word compound stimuli (3.5° wide, 5° high) appeared in the center of the screen, which was presented for 1,000 ms, and was followed by a blank screen ITI for a randomized duration of 800 or 1,200 ms.…”

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“…Zhu and Luo (2012) demonstrated that the processing of emotional content in words might have no influence on the facial expression processing in 60-90 ms early time window with C1 component, as evidenced by significant differentiation between fearful and happy faces regardless of emotional congruency of trials. For these emotional face–word Stroop studies among Chinese native speakers (i.e., Zhu et al, 2010; Zhu and Luo, 2012; Shen et al, 2013; Xue et al, 2015), two Chinese emotion words (i.e., “”/“happy” and “”/“fearful”) and an equal number (20) of Chinese emotional face pictures was employed as experimental stimuli to form face–word pairs that were congruent or incongruent. The current study attempts to further elucidate the generality of prior research findings in L1 using a larger set of emotion word stimuli in both languages of the Chinese-English bilinguals (12 emotion words for each language).…”

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Neural Correlates of Task-Irrelevant First and Second Language Emotion Words – Evidence from the Emotional Face–Word Stroop Task

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Wang

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Emotionally valenced words have thus far not been empirically examined in a bilingual population with the emotional face–word Stroop paradigm. Chinese-English bilinguals were asked to identify the facial expressions of emotion with their first (L1) or second (L2) language task-irrelevant emotion words superimposed on the face pictures. We attempted to examine how the emotional content of words modulated behavioral performance and cerebral functioning in the bilinguals’ two languages. The results indicated that there were significant congruency effects for both L1 and L2 emotion words, and that identifiable differences in the magnitude of the Stroop effect between the two languages were also observed, suggesting L1 is more capable of activating the emotional response to word stimuli. For event-related potentials data, an N350–550 effect was observed only in the L1 task with greater negativity for incongruent than congruent trials. The size of the N350–550 effect differed across languages, whereas no identifiable language distinction was observed in the effect of conflict slow potential (conflict SP). Finally, more pronounced negative amplitude at 230–330 ms was observed in L1 than in L2, but only for incongruent trials. This negativity, likened to an orthographic decoding N250, may reflect the extent of attention to emotion word processing at word-form level, while the N350–550 reflects a complicated set of processes in the conflict processing. Overall, the face–word congruency effect has reflected identifiable language distinction at 230–330 and 350-550 ms, which provides supporting evidence for the theoretical proposals assuming attenuated emotionality of L2 processing.

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Neural Correlates of Task-Irrelevant First and Second Language Emotion Words – Evidence from the Emotional Face–Word Stroop Task

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“…At the behavioral level, we did not observe conflict adaptation effect, which was in line with pervious study which also used happy versus sad emotion (Xue et al 2015). We thought that it might be associated with the difference between sad and fearful emotion (Etkin et al 2006;Xue et al 2015).…”

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“…The face-word Stroop task was widely used to measure emotional conflict in both psychological and clinical study (Etkin et al 2006;Etkin and Schatzberg 2011;Chechko et al 2013;Xue et al 2015). During this paradigm, participants need to judge facial expression of target face while ignoring the meaning of superimposed words.…”

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Amplitude of low-frequency oscillations associated with emotional conflict control

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Previous fMRI studies related to emotional conflict focused on task activation during the specific experimental paradigm. Yet, the underlying spontaneous neural activity was largely unknown. Here, this was the first study using resting-state fMRI to explore the spontaneous neural activity related to emotional conflict. We used the whole-brain analysis to investigate the association between emotional conflict and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) in a large sample. We found that the emotional conflict effect was negatively correlated with ALFF in the right AMY. These findings implied that AMY was the key region which plays a crucial role in emotional conflict.

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Emotional contrast and psychological function impact response inhibition to threatening faces

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Waring

2018

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Poor inhibitory control over negative emotional information has been identified as a possible contributor to affective disorders, but the distinct effects of emotional contrast and fearful versus angry faces on response inhibition remain unknown. In the present study, young adults completed an emotional go/no-go task involving happy, neutral, and either fearful or angry faces. Results did not reveal differences in accuracy or speed between angry and fearful face conditions. However, responses were slower and indicated poorer inhibition in blocks where threatening faces were paired with happy, versus neutral, faces. Results may reflect cognitive load of emotional valence contrast, such that higher contrast blocks (containing threatening with happy faces) produced more conflict and required more processing than lower contrast blocks (threatening with neutral faces). Preliminary findings also revealed higher anxiety and depression symptoms corresponded with slower responses and worse accuracy, consistent with patterns of adverse impacts of anxiety and depression on response inhibition to threatening faces, even at subclinical levels of symptomatology.

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Electrophysiological correlates related to the conflict adaptation effect in an emotional conflict task

Cited by 17 publications

References 26 publications

Neural Correlates of Task-Irrelevant First and Second Language Emotion Words – Evidence from the Emotional Face–Word Stroop Task

Neural Correlates of Task-Irrelevant First and Second Language Emotion Words – Evidence from the Emotional Face–Word Stroop Task

Amplitude of low-frequency oscillations associated with emotional conflict control

Emotional contrast and psychological function impact response inhibition to threatening faces

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