Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2018
Social exclusion weakens storage capacity and attentional filtering ability in visual working memory.
Trial report in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- The emotional mechanism underlying the adverse effect of social exclusion on working memory performance: A tDCS study.PloS one · 2023Trial
- Social exclusion enhances the processing of emotional crowd faces: Evidence from ERPs.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Resilience through regulation: Individual differences in inhibitory control shape neural and psychological responses to ostracism.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Identical Attentional Capture with Different Working Memory Representation Precision.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Social chronic pain: the affective response to social exclusion.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- A cross-sectional study on the association between executive functions and social disabilities in people with a psychotic disorder.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Article
- Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation alleviates the negative impact of immediate and chronic social exclusion on intertemporal decision-making.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- A negative emotional state impairs individuals' ability to filter distractors from working memory: an ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- The "psychiatric" neuron: the psychic neuron of the cerebral cortex, revisited.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Social exclusion modulates dual mechanisms of cognitive control: Evidence from ERPs.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
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Abstract
Social exclusion has been found to impair visual working memory (WM), while the underlying neural processes are currently unclear. Using two experiments, we tested whether the poor WM performance caused by exclusion was due to reduced storage capacity, impaired attentional filtering ability or both. The Cyberball game was used to manipulate social exclusion. Seventy-four female participants performed WM tasks while event-related potentials were recorded. In Experiment 1, participants were made to remember the orientations of red rectangles while ignoring salient green rectangles. Results showed that exclusion impaired the ability to filter out irrelevant items from WM, as reflected by the similar contralateral delay activity (CDA) amplitudes for one-target-one-distractor condition and two-targets condition, as well as the similar CDA amplitudes for two-targets-two-distractors condition and four-targets condition in excluded individuals. In Experiment 2, participants were asked to remember 1-5 colored squares. Results showed that exclusion reduced storage capacity, as the CDA amplitudes reached asymptote at loads of two items for exclusion group and at loads of three items for inclusion group. Together, these two experiments provided complementary evidence that WM deficits caused by social exclusion were due to reduced storage capacity and impaired attentional filtering ability.
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