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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Affective Science
  • Psychophysiology

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  • Cognitive conflict arises during tasks requiring response inhibition or rule adherence.
  • Understanding the neural basis of cognitive conflict is crucial for explaining its impact on emotional processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the physiological mechanisms of cognitive conflict using event-related potentials (ERPs).
  • To examine how cognitive conflict influences the evaluation of affective words.

Main Methods:

  • An affective priming paradigm with Stroop stimuli was employed.
  • Participants evaluated target words (positive/negative) following congruent or incongruent primes.
  • Behavioral data (reaction times) and electrophysiological data (ERPs) were recorded.

Main Results:

  • Behavioral results indicated faster reaction times for congruent positive targets and incongruent negative targets.
  • Event-related potentials showed a larger N2 amplitude for incongruent stimuli, signifying cognitive conflict.
  • A reduced N400 amplitude was observed for negative words after incongruent primes and positive words after congruent primes.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive conflict significantly modulates both behavioral and electrophysiological responses during emotional word processing.
  • These findings support the view of cognitive conflict as an aversive signal impacting affective evaluations.
  • ERPs provide valuable insights into the neural underpinnings of cognitive conflict and emotion interaction.