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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Deficits in emotion regulation are linked to emotional disorders.
  • Working memory training, particularly attention control, shows promise in improving emotion regulation.
  • Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying this improvement is crucial for developing effective interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of working memory training on emotion regulation abilities.
  • To examine changes in attention network functions and late positive potential (LPP) following cognitive training.
  • To explore the role of attention orientation in mediating the effects of working memory training on emotion regulation.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in a 20-day running memory task.
  • Pre- and post-training assessments included attention network tests and electrophysiological recordings (LPP).
  • A control group received no training for comparison.

Main Results:

  • The training group showed significant improvements in the orientation function of the attention network compared to the control group.
  • Late positive potential (LPP), an indicator of emotional processing, decreased in the training group after the intervention.
  • These changes suggest enhanced emotion regulation capabilities post-training.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory training can effectively enhance emotion regulation abilities.
  • Improvements in the orientation function of the attention network may play a role in facilitating emotion regulation.
  • Cognitive training strategies, like working memory tasks, offer a potential avenue for preventing and treating psychopathological symptoms related to emotion dysregulation.