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Emotions in Go/NoGo conflicts.

Annekathrin Schacht¹, Roland Nigbur, Werner Sommer

¹Department of Psychology, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, 10099 Berlin, Germany. schachta@hu-berlin.de

Psychological Research

|November 26, 2008

Summary

Conflicts in the Go/NoGo task, where participants must respond to Go trials but withhold responses to NoGo trials, did not elicit negative emotions. Instead, these conflicts were perceived as obstructive rather than aversive.

Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Emotion Research

Background:

Emotion theories suggest a link between conflict/error processing and emotional responses.
Neurophysiological evidence indicates shared pathways for conflict, errors, and emotions.
The Go/NoGo task presents a paradigm for studying response inhibition and conflict.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether conflicts in the Go/NoGo task induce emotional responses.
To examine the relationship between response conflict and physiological indicators of emotion.
To determine the appraisal of NoGo trial conflicts.

Main Methods:

Three experiments utilized the Go/NoGo task with varying NoGo trial probabilities.
Physiological measures included skin conductance responses (SCRs), corrugator muscle activity, and startle blink responses.

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A choice reaction task served as a control condition.

Main Results:

NoGo trials significantly altered emotion-sensitive physiological indicators compared to Go trials.
Skin conductance responses (SCRs) and startle blink responses were reduced during NoGo trials.
Corrugator muscle activity was prolonged during NoGo trials relative to Go trials.

Conclusions:

The findings suggest that Go/NoGo task conflicts are not inherently aversive.
Conflicts appear to be appraised as obstructive to the primary response goal.
NoGo conflicts are perceived as less action-relevant than successful Go responses.