Transient interference of right hemispheric function due to automatic emotional processing

Hartikainen, Kaisa M.; Ogawa, Keith H.; Knight, Robert T.

doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(00)00072-5

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“…Hartikainen et al (2000) also reported slower responses to detect the appearance of a single triangle presented in the LVF versus RVF after the presentation of a single emotional image to the left or right of fixation. Unfortunately, their lateralized emotional primes presented 300 ms prior to the target both provided a spatial cue to attention, resulting in a complicated interaction of cue-target compatibility, prime, and target VF, and provided an opportunity for an eye movement.…”

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“…The aim of our experiment was to test these possibilities. Two somewhat relevant previous studies reported an LVF performance decrement after or during exposure to emotional stimuli (Hartikainen, Ogawa, & Knight, 2000;Thompson, Malloy, Cone, & Hendrickson, 2009), but in both cases, such effects could have been due to eye movement biases, spatial attention shifts, or featural differences between emotional and nonemotional stimuli.…”

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“…1); the participant's task was to report whether an X or an N was present on each trial. We used faces as distracting primes, rather than the International Affective Picture System images used in previous studies (Dolcos & McCarthy, 2006;Hartikainen et al, 2000), because facial expressions do not introduce substantive differences in low-level stimulus features and, therefore, are more appropriate for isolating emotional versus nonemotional responses. We introduced a brief temporal separation between the irrelevant face prime and the letter array to provide enough time for expression-specific activation to occur (see Eimer & Holmes, 2007, for a review) but insufficient time for an eye movement.…”

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Emotional distraction unbalances visual processing

Gupta

Raymond

2012

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Brain mechanisms used to control nonemotional aspects of cognition may be distinct from those regulating responses to emotional stimuli, with activity of the latter being detrimental to the former. Previous studies have shown that suppression of irrelevant emotional stimuli produces a largely right-lateralized pattern of frontal brain activation, thus predicting that emotional stimuli may invoke temporary, lateralized costs to performance on nonemotional cognitive tasks. To test this, we briefly (85 ms) presented a central, irrelevant, expressive (angry, happy, sad, or fearful) or neutral face 100 ms prior to a letter search task. The presentation of emotional versus neutral faces slowed subsequent search for targets appearing in the left, but not the right, hemifield, supporting the notion of a right-lateralized, emotional response mechanism that competes for control with nonemotional cognitive processes. Presentation of neutral, scrambled, or inverted neutral faces produced no such laterality effects on visual search response times.

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“…For example, Hartikainen, Ogawa, & Knight (2000) had subjects determine the orientation of a target triangle stimulus (upright or inverted) that was briefly flashed (150 msec) and randomly presented in the right or left visual hemifield following the presentation of emotional or neutral pictures in either the same or the opposite hemifield as that of the target (Hartikainen et al, 2000). The authors observed an interference of right-hemisphere function when subjects viewed emotional stimuli, as evidenced by slower reaction times (RTs) when the targets were shown in the left visual field, independently of the picture presentation field.…”

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Load-dependent modulation of affective picture processing

Erthal

Oliveira

Mocaiber

et al. 2005

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Because of the biological significance of emotional stimuli, their processing is considered largely automatic. In the study reported herein, we tested the alternative hypothesis-namely, that the processing of emotional stimuli requires some level of attention. Our experiments utilized highly negative and arousing visual stimuli comprising mutilated bodies. All experiments employed a single task, which consisted of determining whether two peripheral bars were like oriented or not, thereby eliminating potential task-difference confounds that may have contaminated prior studies. Our results revealed that task-irrelevant unpleasant images slowed reaction time during the performance of the main task. Such interference was modulated by task difficulty as well as by alcohol consumption, showing that the processing of emotional visual stimuli is not immune to attentional manipulations. These results suggest that it is essential to utilize attentional manipulations that more fully consume attentional resources in order to demonstrate that the processing of emotional stimuli is resource limited.

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“…They suggest that emotional stimuli interrupt ongoing cognitively-controlled activities by diverting attention from them. Some studies examining the effect of emotional valence using emotional pictures have reported that negative images produce more interference than positive ones (e.g., Delplanque et al, 2004;Hartikainen, Ogawa & Knight, 2000;Tipples & Sharma, 2000). Thus, it is clear that emotions have an important effect on cognitive processes, including inhibition which is the main focus of the present study.…”

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

Ramos-Loyo¹,

González-Garrido²,

García-Aguilar³

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IJPS

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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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Transient interference of right hemispheric function due to automatic emotional processing

Cited by 158 publications

References 18 publications

Emotional distraction unbalances visual processing

Emotional distraction unbalances visual processing

Load-dependent modulation of affective picture processing

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

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