Time course of automatic emotion regulation during a facial Go/Nogo task

Zhang, Wenhai; Lu, Jiamei

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.12.011

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“…Most studies show no effect of emotion on the Nogo-N2 [44,45,49,51], although some have reported an attenuation of the N2 for emotional relative to neutral stimuli [46,47]. In contrast, emotional stimuli consistently enhance the Nogo-P3 [46,47,51], with effects sometimes greater for positive than for negative stimuli [44,45]. This enhanced Nogo-P3 is typically interpreted as a more effortful or less efficient inhibitory control in emotional contexts [44,45,48].…”

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Effects of Emotional Valence on Hemispheric Asymmetries in Response Inhibition

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Hemispheric asymmetries are a major organizational principle in human emotion processing, but their interaction with prefrontal control processes is not well understood. To this end, we determined whether hemispheric differences in response inhibition depend on the emotional valence of the stimulus being inhibited. Participants completed a lateralised Go/Nogo task, in which Nogo stimuli were neutral or emotional (either positive or negative) images, while Go stimuli were scrambled versions of the same pictures. We recorded the N2 and P3 event-related potential (ERP) components, two common electrophysiological measures of response inhibition processes. Behaviourally, participants were more accurate in withholding responses to emotional than to neutral stimuli. Electrophysiologically, Nogo-P3 responses were greater for emotional than for neutral stimuli, an effect driven primarily by an enhanced response to positive images. Hemispheric asymmetries were also observed, with greater Nogo-P3 following left versus right visual field stimuli. However, the visual field effect did not interact with emotion. We therefore find no evidence that emotion-related asymmetries affect response inhibition processes.

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Effects of Emotional Valence on Hemispheric Asymmetries in Response Inhibition

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“…Zhang and Lu (2012) performed a similar Go/NoGo paradigm to the one used in the www.ccsenet.org/ijps…”

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“…Recently, Zhang & Lu (2012) performed a Go/NoGo paradigm with facial emotional stimuli. In this study, subjects had to respond to gender in faces with a neutral expression or that depicted happy or fearful expressions, but not to the emotion itself.…”

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“…Some studies have addressed the effects of emotional stimuli on inhibition processes using ERP in a Go/NoGo paradigm, regarding auditory emotional stimuli (Yu et al, 2009) (Albert et al, 2010), and gender in facial expressions (Zhang & Lu, 2012). Also, the effects of emotions expressed by human faces on the inhibition of a prepotent response have been explored by imaging studies (Shafritz et al, 2006;Hare et al, 2008;Schulz et al, 2009); however, to the best of our knowledge, such effects have not been studied using ERP recordings that, as stated above, may explain the temporal occurrence of cognitive processes, and might serve as an index of the modulating effect of emotional stimuli on these processes, specifically inhibition.…”

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The Emotional Content of Faces Interferes with Inhibitory Processing: An Event Related Potential Study

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González-Garrido²,

García-Aguilar³

et al. 2013

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Emotional stimuli interfere with other kinds of stimuli processing because they capture attentional resources in accordance with their adaptive importance. This suggests that it would be more difficult to inhibit emotional faces than neutral ones or objects. The present study evaluates the effects of facial emotional expressions on inhibitory processing using event-related brain potentials in a Go/NoGo paradigm. Event-related potentials were obtained in healthy subjects during emotional inhibition tasks involving anger and happiness, compared to non-emotional tasks based on simple objects and gender. Emotional tasks exhibited poorer performance than non-emotional ones. P3 latencies were longer during response inhibition to emotional faces than those obtained while inhibiting non-emotional stimuli. This study provides evidence that facial emotional content interferes with response inhibition since it may elicit additional neural resource demands.

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“…This is surprising given that emotions can be viewed as action dispositions, or motivationally-tuned states of readiness (Frijda et al, 1989;Lang, 1995) that prepare the organism to respond adaptively (fight/flight or approach response) to environmental stimuli. This is even more surprising in the context of impulsiveness, where high trait impulsiveness may increase the common failure of impulse control by further facilitating the prepotent response tendencies typically evoked by the emotionally arousing stimuli (e.g., Chiu et al, 2008;Zhang and Lu, 2012).…”

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confidence: 92%