ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Working memory capacity and emotion regulation strategies differentially predict proactive and reactive cognitive control.
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Introduction: Extensive evidence suggests that both working memory (WM) and emotion regulation shape cognitive control, yet their distinct contributions to proactive and reactive control remain unclear. Methods: Guided by the dual mechanisms of control (DMC) framework, sixty-six healthy participants completed a change detection task to assess working memory capacity (WMC), a modified stop-signal task (SST) to index proactive and reactive control, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) to evaluate habitual regulation strategies. Results: Correlation and regression analyses revealed differential predictive patterns. The proactive control (PC effect), quantified as the reaction time difference between Uncertain-Go and Certain-Go trials in the SST task, was significantly related to WMC, with a marginal contribution from expressive suppression. Reactive control, as indexed by stop-signal reaction time (SSRT), was significantly associated with cognitive reappraisal strategy. Expressive suppression strategy emerged as a significant predictor of SSRT only within the regression model, indicating a potential suppressor effect. Furthermore, a positive correlation between the PC effect and SSRT indicated partial interdependence between proactive and reactive control. Discussion: These results demonstrate that working memory and emotion regulation strategies exert distinct, yet complementary, influences on cognitive control, highlighting a dynamic interplay between cognitive and affective systems in goal-directed behavior.
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