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Flexible emotional control requires evaluating unchosen options to adaptively switch strategies. The anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC) is key for this cognitive flexibility in emotional regulation.

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  • Emotion Regulation

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  • Emotional control is crucial under time pressure and changing contexts.
  • Current models neglect the ability to flexibly switch emotional control strategies.
  • Decision-making literature suggests evaluating alternatives aids strategy switching.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a neurocognitive model for rapid switching between emotional control strategies.
  • To identify the neural basis of adaptive emotional control strategy switching.
  • To integrate decision-making principles into emotional control research.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing on decision-making literature to conceptualize strategy switching.
  • Reappraising meta-analytic neuroimaging evidence.
  • Examining the role of the anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC).

Main Results:

  • Rapid switching between emotional control strategies involves evaluating counterfactual (unchosen) options.
  • The anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC) is consistently involved when monitoring alternative strategies.
  • aPFC activation is observed when alternative emotional actions hold high value.

Conclusions:

  • A novel framework proposes that evaluating alternatives underlies adaptive emotional control switching.
  • The aPFC is critical for implementing this flexible emotional regulation mechanism.
  • Findings have implications for clinical and evolutionary perspectives on emotional control.