ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2021
Only irrelevant angry, but not happy, expressions facilitate the response inhibition.
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- The influence of emotional stimuli on response inhibition: a systematic review in non-clinical adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Differences in cognitive control under negative emotion priming among college students with varying emotional regulation abilities.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of aging and valence on emotional response inhibition: conclusions from a novel stop-signal task.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Inhibitory control towards angry stimuli in patients with binge eating disorder: a pilot study.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- 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
- Stopping in (e)motion: Reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
It has been debated that arousal rather than valence modulates the response-inhibition process. The processing of irrelevant information of happy and angry faces interacts with attention differently. In the present study, arousal-matched irrelevant happy and angry faces were used as stop-signals in the stop-signal paradigm. Participants were required to respond to go-signals (discriminate between X or O). Occasionally, a stop-signal was presented where participants were required to withhold their motor response. Results indicate a significant effect of emotion on response inhibition, which suggests that valence of a stop-signal modulates inhibitory control. More specifically, we found that only irrelevant angry, but not happy, expressions facilitate the response inhibition process. These results have theoretical implications for understanding the nature of emotions and its interaction with cognitive control functions.
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