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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Affective Science

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  • Cognitive control manages conflicting stimuli and goal-directed behavior.
  • The Affective Signalling Hypothesis posits that negative affect from conflict enhances cognitive control.
  • Prior research shows affective stimuli modulate conflict adaptation, but effects of non-conflict-related affect are unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if phasic affective states, independent of conflict, improve cognitive control.
  • To test if passively viewing emotional words enhances subsequent cognitive control.

Main Methods:

  • Intermixed trials of a conflict task with passive viewing of emotional words.
  • Four experiments were conducted.
  • Bayesian analysis was applied to assess the results.

Main Results:

  • No evidence of adaptation to aversive signals was found, considering both valence and arousal.
  • Affective states induced by emotional words did not trigger improved cognitive control in subsequent trials.

Conclusions:

  • Phasic affective states alone are insufficient to increase cognitive control.
  • The Affective Signalling Hypothesis may not extend to affective states not directly triggered by conflict.