Trial reportPsychonomic bulletin & review2018
Motivation enhances control of positive and negative emotional distractions.
Trial report in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Efficacy of single-session transcranial direct current stimulation on addiction-related inhibitory control and craving: a randomized trial in males with Internet gaming disorder.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2021Trial
- Expectations don't protect us from emotional distractions.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Attentional bias and math avoidance: insights from a developmental sample.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Emotion-Induced Blindness Is Impervious to Working Memory Load.Affective science · 2023Article
- On the relationship between emotions and cognitive control: Evidence from an observational study on emotional priming Stroop task.PloS one · 2023Observational
- Arousal-driven interactions between reward motivation and categorization of emotional facial expressions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Monetary incentives have only limited effects on auditory distraction: evidence for the automaticity of cross-modal attention capture.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Proactive Control of Emotional Distraction: Evidence From EEG Alpha Suppression.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Reward elicits cognitive control over emotional distraction: Evidence from pupillometry.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Attention Capture of Non-target Emotional Faces: An Evidence From Reward Learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Using cognitive control to ignore distractions is essential for successfully achieving our goals. In emotionally-neutral contexts, motivation can reduce interference from irrelevant stimuli by enhancing cognitive control. However, attention is commonly biased towards emotional stimuli, making them potent distractors. Can motivation aid control of emotional distractions, and does it do so similarly for positive and negative stimuli? Here, we examined how task motivation influences control of distraction from positive, negative, and neutral scenes. Participants completed a simple perceptual task while attempting to ignore task-irrelevant images. One group received monetary reward for fast and accurate task performance; another (control) group did not. Overall, both negative (mutilation) and positive (erotic) images caused greater slowing of responses than neutral images of people, but emotional distraction was reduced with reward. Crucially, despite the different motivational directions associated with negative and positive stimuli, reward reduced negative and positive distraction equally. Our findings suggest that motivation may encourage the use of a sustained proactive control strategy that can effectively reduce the impact of emotional distraction.
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