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Luiz Pessoa¹, Srikanth Padmala, Andrea Kenzer

¹Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. pessoa@umd.edu

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Emotional stimuli can impact cognitive control. Low-threat emotional cues enhance response inhibition, while high-threat cues impair it, demonstrating emotion

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Area of Science:

Cognitive psychology
Neuroscience
Affective science

Background:

Cognition and emotion are intricately linked, influencing behavior.
Understanding how emotions affect cognitive processes like response inhibition is crucial.
The stop-signal task is a standard paradigm for measuring response inhibition.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the interaction between emotion and cognition during response inhibition.
To examine how different levels of threat in emotional stimuli affect inhibitory control.

Main Methods:

Two experiments utilized the stop-signal task.
Experiment 1 used low-threat emotional stimuli (fearful and happy faces) as stop-signals.
Experiment 2 used high-threat emotional stimuli (mild shock-paired cues) as stop-signals.

Main Results:

Low-threat emotional stimuli (fearful/happy faces) significantly improved response inhibition compared to neutral stimuli.
High-threat emotional stimuli significantly impaired response inhibition compared to neutral stimuli.
Emotional stimuli influenced performance through effects on early sensory/attentional processing (Experiment 1) and central processing stages (Experiment 2).

Conclusions:

Emotional stimuli can modulate cognitive performance, specifically response inhibition.
The effect of emotion on cognitive control depends on the emotional potency and nature of the stimuli.
Findings suggest emotion can either enhance or impair cognitive functions based on stimulus characteristics.