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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2014

Emotional arousal amplifies the effects of biased competition in the brain.

Tae-Ho Lee, Michiko Sakaki, Ruth Cheng, Ricardo Velasco, Mara Mather

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Tae-Ho LeeDepartment of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA.
Michiko SakakiDepartment of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA.
Ruth ChengDepartment of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA.
Ricardo VelascoDepartment of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA.
Mara MatherDepartment of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191, USA mara.mather@usc.edu.

Funding

The Impact of Emotional Regulation on Cognition in AgingR01AG025340 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MATHER, MARA · 2004 to 2021
$7.9M
Brain Mechanisms of Emotion-Cognition Interactions in AgingK02AG032309 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MATHER, MARA · 2009 to 2013
$540k
NIA NIH HHS K02 AG032309NIA NIH HHS K02AG032309NIA NIH HHS R01 AG025340NIA NIH HHS R01AG025340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The arousal-biased competition model predicts that arousal increases the gain on neural competition between stimuli representations. Thus, the model predicts that arousal simultaneously enhances processing of salient stimuli and impairs processing of relatively less-salient stimuli. We tested this model with a simple dot-probe task. On each trial, participants were simultaneously exposed to one face image as a salient cue stimulus and one place image as a non-salient stimulus. A border around the face cue location further increased its bottom-up saliency. Before these visual stimuli were shown, one of two tones played: one that predicted a shock (increasing arousal) or one that did not. An arousal-by-saliency interaction in category-specific brain regions (fusiform face area for salient faces and parahippocampal place area for non-salient places) indicated that brain activation associated with processing the salient stimulus was enhanced under arousal whereas activation associated with processing the non-salient stimulus was suppressed under arousal. This is the first functional magnetic resonance imaging study to demonstrate that arousal can enhance information processing for prioritized stimuli while simultaneously impairing processing of non-prioritized stimuli. Thus, it goes beyond previous research to show that arousal does not uniformly enhance perceptual processing, but instead does so selectively in ways that optimizes attention to highly salient stimuli.

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BiasAcoustic StimulationAdolescentAdultArousalBrainCompetitive BehaviorConditioning, ClassicalFearFemaleGalvanic Skin ResponseHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLinear ModelsMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleOxygenarousal-biased competitionemotional arousalemotion-induced enhancement and impairmentfear-conditioningFFA and PPAperception and attention

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PMCPMC4249484

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