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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2022

The Influence of Vicarious Fear-Learning in "Infecting" Reactive Action Inhibition.

Simone Battaglia, Pasquale Cardellicchio, Chiara Di Fazio, Claudio Nazzi, Alessio Fracasso, Sara Borgomaneri

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Simone BattagliaDepartment of Psychology, Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Pasquale CardellicchioIIT@UniFe Center for Translational Neurophysiology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ferrara, Italy.
Chiara Di FazioDepartment of Psychology, Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Claudio NazziDepartment of Psychology, Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Alessio FracassoInstitute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Sara BorgomaneriDepartment of Psychology, Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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Abstract

Since the dawn of cognitive neuroscience, emotions have been recognized to impact on several executive processes, such as action inhibition. However, the complex interplay between emotional stimuli and action control is not yet fully understood. One way to measure inhibitory control is the stop-signal task (SST), which estimates the ability to cancel outright an action to the presentation of a stop signal by means of the stop-signal reaction times (SSRTs). Impaired as well as facilitated action control has been found when faced with intrinsic emotional stimuli as stop signals in SSTs. Here, we aimed at investigating more deeply the power of negative stimuli to influence our action control, testing the hypothesis that a previously neutral stimulus [i.e., the image of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)], which has been conditioned through vicarious fear learning, has the same impact on reactive action inhibition performance as an intrinsically negative stimulus (i.e., a fearful face or body). Action control capabilities were tested in 90 participants by means of a SST, in which the stop signals were represented by different negative stimuli. Results showed that the SARS-CoV-2 image enhanced the ability to suppress an ongoing action similarly to observing fearful facial expressions or fearful body postures. Interestingly, we found that this effect was predicted by impulsivity traits: for example, the less self-control the participants had, the less they showed emotional facilitation for inhibitory performance. These results demonstrated that vicarious fear learning has a critical impact on cognitive abilities, making a neutral image as threatening as phylogenetically innate negative stimuli and able to impact on our behavioral control.

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action inhibitionnegative emotionSARS-CoV-2stop-signal task (SST)vicarious fear-learning

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