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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychophysiology

Background:

  • Executive function (EF) is vital for daily activities but vulnerable to psychological stressors like stress and negative affect.
  • Actual time pressure is known to disrupt EF, but the effects of perceived time pressure (PTP) without objective time constraints are less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of perceived time pressure (PTP) on cognitive inhibition, a core component of EF.
  • To examine the relationship between PTP, stress, negative affect, and cognitive inhibition.

Main Methods:

  • Used Eriksen's Flanker task to measure cognitive inhibition.
  • Manipulated the inter-trial interval (ITI) to create varying levels of PTP.
  • Measured stress and negative affect alongside task performance.

Main Results:

  • Decreasing the ITI to increase PTP significantly reduced cognitive inhibition and elevated stress and negative affect.
  • Increasing the ITI to decrease PTP reversed most negative effects, though stress levels remained elevated.
  • Multilevel modeling indicated that ITI and stress predicted inhibition, with stress potentially mediating the ITI-inhibition relationship.

Conclusions:

  • Perceived time pressure (PTP) acts as an empirical stressor that negatively impacts executive function (EF).
  • Cognitive inhibition is sensitive to fluctuations in PTP, highlighting the importance of subjective time perception in cognitive performance.