ArticleCognition & emotion2020
Positive information facilitates response inhibition in older adults only when emotion is task-relevant.
Article in Cognition & emotion, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The influence of emotional stimuli on response inhibition: a systematic review in non-clinical adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Enhancing Human Action Inhibition Through Cortico-Cortical Paired Associative Stimulation.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Effects of aging and valence on emotional response inhibition: conclusions from a novel stop-signal task.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The assessment of executive function abilities in healthy and neurodegenerative aging-A selective literature review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- Effect of emotional stimulus on response inhibition in people with mild cognitive impairment: an event-related potential study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- The point of no return in the Emotional Stop-Signal Task: A matter of affect or method?PloS one · 2024Article
- Irrelevant angry faces impair response inhibition, and the go and stop processes share attentional resources.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Irrelevant positive emotional information facilitates response inhibition only under a high perceptual load.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A multimodal psychological, physiological and behavioural dataset for human emotions in driving tasks.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Stopping in (e)motion: Reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition.Cognition & emotionArticle
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- Erratum issuedCorrection.2021
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Abstract
Emotional information is integral to everyday life and impacts a variety of cognitive abilities including response inhibition, a critical skill for maintaining appropriate and flexible behaviour. However, reported effects of emotion on response inhibition are inconsistent in younger adults, and very limited in older adults. Effects of aging are especially relevant because emotion regulation improves with aging despite declining inhibitory control over neutral information. Across three studies, we assessed the impact of emotional facial expressions on response inhibition in younger and older adults while manipulating attention to task stimuli. Emotional faces (versus neutral faces) altered response inhibition only when task instructions required explicit attention to emotional attributes of the faces. When directly comparing fear faces to happy faces, both age groups had better response inhibition to happy faces. Age further influenced differences across conditions, in that happy faces enhanced response inhibition relative to neutral faces in older adults but not younger adults. Thus, emotional response inhibition for task-relevant (but not task-irrelevant) positive information is enhanced in late life compared to early adulthood. The present work extends the nascent literature on emotional response inhibition in aging, and proffers a framework to reconcile the mixed literature on this topic in younger adults.
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