ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2017
An unpleasant emotional state reduces working memory capacity: electrophysiological evidence.
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- Negative emotion reduces visual working memory recall variability: A meta-analytical review.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Pooled it
- Fifteen Years Controlling Unwanted Thoughts: A Systematic Review of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ).Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- The emotional mechanism underlying the adverse effect of social exclusion on working memory performance: A tDCS study.PloS one · 2023Trial
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- Exploring the Interplay of Working Memory, Apathy, and Mood/Emotional Factors.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Investigating Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Marital Satisfaction and Cognitive Health by Gender and Across the Cognitive Function Distribution.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- The effect of an induced negative mood on the updating of affective information.Cognitive processing · 2022Article
- What emotion dimensions can affect working memory performance in healthy adults? A review.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Review
- Neutral and negative mood induction in executive tasks of working memory.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2021Article
- Is internal source memory recognition modulated by emotional encoding contexts?Psychological research · 2021Article
- Long-Term Influence of Incidental Emotions on the Emotional Judgment of Neutral Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Effects of load and emotional state on EEG alpha-band power and inter-site synchrony during a visual working memory task.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- State anxiety reduces working memory capacity but does not impact filtering cost for neutral distracters.Psychophysiology · 2020Article
- The Ups and Downs of Cognitive Function: Neuroticism and Negative Affect Drive Performance Inconsistency.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Article
- Low delta and high alpha power are associated with better conflict control and working memory in high mindfulness, low anxiety individuals.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Affective Working Memory: An Integrative Psychological Construct.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Review
- Controlling Unpleasant Thoughts: Adjustments of Cognitive Control Based on Previous-Trial Load in a Working Memory Task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- "Keep That in Mind!" The Role of Positive Affect in Working Memory for Maintaining Goal-Relevant Information.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Emotional states can guide the actions and decisions we make in our everyday life through their influence on cognitive processes such as working memory (WM). We investigated the long-lasting interference that an unpleasant emotional state had on goal-relevant WM representations from an electrophysiological perspective. Participants performed a change detection task that was preceded by the presentation of unpleasant or neutral task-irrelevant pictures in a blocked fashion. We focused on the contralateral delay activity (CDA), an event-related potential that is sensitive to the number of task-relevant items stored in WM. We found that the asymptotic limit for the CDA amplitude was lower during the unpleasant emotional state than during the neutral one; that is, an emotional state was capable of reducing how many task-relevant items the participants could hold in WM. Furthermore, both the individuals who experienced more intrusive thoughts and those who were dispositionally anxious were more susceptible to the influence of the emotional state. We provide evidence that an unpleasant emotional state diminished visual WM for task-relevant items, particularly in susceptible individuals. These results open new avenues to uncover the emotional-cognitive processing that underlies maladaptive WM representations and the role of such processing in the development of mental illness.
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