Neural mechanisms underlying urgent and evaluative behaviors: An fMRI study on the interaction of automatic and controlled processes

Megías, Alberto; Navas, Juan F.; Petrova, Dafina; Cândido, Antônio; Maldonado, Antonio; García‐Retamero, Rocío; Catena, Andrés

doi:10.1002/hbm.22812

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“…Future research should focus on how EI training may benefit individuals’ cognitive control ability. Given that deficits in this cognitive ability are related, for instance, to impulsiveness, risk behavior, drug abuse or over-consumption of caffeine 13 , 48 – 51 , finding new procedures for reducing these deficits could have remarkable consequences. EI training has already shown to be an effective tool for improving other relevant variables such as aggression, empathy or mental health in adolescents 52 – 54 .…”

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Performance on emotional tasks engaging cognitive control depends on emotional intelligence abilities: an ERP study

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Gutiérrez‐Cobo

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Cognitive control is a key process in decision making and adequately adapting our behavior to the environment. Previous studies have provided evidence of a lower capacity for cognitive control in emotion-laden contexts in comparison with neutral contexts. The aim of the present research was to study changes in cognitive control performance as a function of emotional intelligence (EI) level in contexts involving emotional information. The study sample was composed of 2 groups of 22 participants each: the high and low EI group. Participants carried out an emotional go/no-go task while brain activity was recorded by EEG. N2 and P3 ERPs were used as indices of cognitive control processing. Participants with higher EI showed a larger N2, reflecting a greater capacity for cognitive control related to changes in conflict monitoring, and to a better detection and evaluation of the emotional stimuli. Moreover, in general, response inhibition accuracy was reduced when emotional information was involved in this process. Our findings reveal that neural mechanisms underlying tasks that engage cognitive control depend on emotional content and EI level. This study indicates the important role played by EI in the relationship between emotion and cognition. EI training may be a very useful tool for improving performance in emotion-laden contexts.

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Performance on emotional tasks engaging cognitive control depends on emotional intelligence abilities: an ERP study

Megías

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“…We made several hypotheses: a) according to Megías, Maldonado, Cándido et al 2011; Megías et al (2015) previous studies, it is expected a trend towards more cautious responses in the urgent tasks compared to the evaluative task, that is, a higher probability of response and larger response bias toward braking than evaluating risk. In addition, urgent behavior should also be characterized by faster responses and worse risk sensitivity than evaluative behavior.…”

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“…These studies established the distinction between evaluative and urgent behavior and demonstrated how they can be modulated by emotions in different ways. Further, these results suggested that urgent behavior relies more upon the automatic-experiential system involving more experiential and emotional processing of the situation, whereas evaluative behavior seems to depend more on the controlled-rational system (Megías et al, 2015).…”

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Modifying Evaluations and Decisions in Risky Situations

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The main aim of this research was to investigate the decision making process in risky situations. We studied how different types of feedback on risky driving behaviors modulate risk evaluation and risk-taking. For a set of risky traffic situations, participants had to make evaluative judgments (judge the situation as risky or not) and urgent decisions (brake or not). In Experiment 1, participants received feedback with and without negative emotional content when they made risky behaviors. In Experiment 2 we investigated the independent effects of feedback and negative emotional stimuli. The results showed three important findings: First, urgent decisions were faster [F(1, 92) = 6.76, p = .01] and more cautious [F(1, 92) = 17.16, p < .001] than evaluative judgments. These results suggest that evaluative judgments of risk and actual risk-taking may not always coincide, and that they seem to be controlled by two different processing systems as proposed by dual process theories. Second, feedback made participants' responses even faster [F(1, 111) = 71.53, p < .001], allowing greater risk sensitivity [F(1, 111) = 22.12, p < .001] and skewing towards more cautious responses [F(1, 111) = 14.09, p < .001]. Finally, emotional stimuli had an effect only when they were presented as feedback. The results of this research increase our understanding of the processes involved in risky driving behavior and suggest efficient ways to control risk taking through the use of feedback.

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“…Our aim, therefore, was to test if the associations between functional coupling in large brain networks and impulsivity and sensation-seeking traits are a function of risk proneness, as derived from the DOSPERT scale (Weber, Blais, & Betz, 2002), in a normal young sample. For this purpose, we used the brain current source density (CSD, determined using sLORETA) estimated from a risk perception task, described in other studies (Megías et al, 2015;Megías, López-Riañez, & Cándido, 2013). As an a priori approach, we depart from the influential work of Yeo et al (2011) 2.2 | Apparatus and stimuli…”

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“…The SR Research Experiment Builder (SR Research Ltd., Mississauga, ON, Canada) was used to run the risk perception task, consisting of 140 real traffic pictures taken from the driver's perspective. The risk levels of the traffic situations were categorized into 70 high-risk pictures and 70 low-risk pictures (seeMegías et al, 2015 for more details)…”

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Risk proneness modulates the impact of impulsivity on brain functional connectivity

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Megías

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Impulsivity and sensation seeking are considered to be among the most important personality traits involved in risk-taking behavior. This study is focused on whether the association of these personality traits and brain functional connectivity depends on individuals' risk proneness. Risk proneness was assessed with the DOSPERT-30 scale and corroborated with performance in a motorcycle simulator. The associations of impulsivity-and sensation seeking-related traits with the between and within coupling of seven major brain functional networks, estimated from electroencefalograma (EEG) recordings, differ according to whether an individual is risk prone or not. In risk-prone individuals, (lack of) premeditation enhanced the coupling of the ventral attention and limbic networks. At the same time, emotion seeking increased the coupling of the frontoparietal network and the default mode networks (DMNs). Finally, (lack of) perseverance had a positive impact on the coupling of anterior temporal nodes of the limbic network whilst having a negative impact on some frontal nodes of the frontoparietal network and the DMNs. In general, the results suggest that the predisposition to behave riskily modulates the way in which impulsivity traits are linked to brain functionality, seemingly making the brain networks prepare for an immediate, automatic, and maladaptive response.K E Y W O R D S brain functional coupling, impulsivity, personality traits, risk taking, sensation seeking

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Neural mechanisms underlying urgent and evaluative behaviors: An fMRI study on the interaction of automatic and controlled processes

Cited by 35 publications

References 46 publications

Performance on emotional tasks engaging cognitive control depends on emotional intelligence abilities: an ERP study

Performance on emotional tasks engaging cognitive control depends on emotional intelligence abilities: an ERP study

Modifying Evaluations and Decisions in Risky Situations

Risk proneness modulates the impact of impulsivity on brain functional connectivity

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