Coping with Negative Stimuli: TRIOS and Affect Predict Attentional Resilience

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan B. Leitner ◽  
Lingling Wang ◽  
James M. Jones ◽  
Steven B. Most
Keyword(s):  
Negative Stimuli

Exploring an Emotional Basis of Cognitive Control in the Flanker Task

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motonori Yamaguchi ◽  
Jack Dylan Moore ◽  
Sarah Hendry ◽  
Felicity Wolohan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Mood Induction ◽  
Flanker Task ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Flanker Effect ◽  
Sequential Modulation ◽  
Emotional Basis ◽  
Negative Stimuli

The emotional basis of cognitive control has been investigated in the flanker task with various procedures and materials across different studies. The present study examined the issue with the same flanker task but with different types of emotional stimuli and design. In seven experiments, the flanker effect and its sequential modulation according to the preceding trial type were assessed. Experiments 1 and 2 used affective pictures and emotional facial expressions as emotional stimuli, and positive and negative stimuli were intermixed. There was little evidence that emotional stimuli influenced cognitive control. Experiments 3 and 4 used the same affective pictures and facial expressions, but positive and negative stimuli were separated between different participant groups. Emotional stimuli reduced the flanker effect as well as its sequential modulation regardless of valence. Experiments 5 and 6 used affective pictures but manipulated arousal and valence of stimuli orthogonally The results did not replicate the reduced flanker effect or sequential modulation by valence, nor did they show consistent effects of arousal. Experiment 7 used a mood induction technique and showed that sequential modulation was positively correlated with valence rating (the higher the more positive) but was negatively correlated with arousal rating. These results are inconsistent with several previous findings and are difficult to reconcile within a single theoretical framework, confirming an elusive nature of the emotional basis of cognitive control in the flanker task.

Can Negative Stimuli Always Have the Processing Superiority？

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 822-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Xia HUANG ◽  
Yue-Jia LUO
Keyword(s):  
Negative Stimuli

scholarly journals AMYGDALA RESPONSE TO NEGATIVE STIMULI PREDICTS PTSD SYMPTOM ONSET FOLLOWING A TERRORIST ATTACK

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 834-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie A. McLaughlin ◽  
Daniel S. Busso ◽  
Andrea Duys ◽  
Jennifer Greif Green ◽  
Sonia Alves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Onset ◽  
Ptsd Symptom ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Amygdala Response ◽  
Negative Stimuli

scholarly journals Valence Asymmetries in the Human Amygdala: Task Relevance Modulates Amygdala Responses to Positive More than Negative Affective Cues

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 842-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Stillman ◽  
Jay J. Van Bavel ◽  
William A. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Relative Increase ◽  
Task Relevance ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Appetitive Stimuli ◽  
Affective Cues ◽  
Amygdala Activity ◽  
Task Goals ◽  
Positive Stimuli ◽  
Negative Stimuli

Organisms must constantly balance appetitive needs with vigilance for potential threats. Recent research suggests that the amygdala may play an important role in both of these goals. Although the amygdala plays a role in processing motivationally relevant stimuli that are positive or negative, negative information often appears to carry greater weight. From a functional perspective, this may reflect the fact that threatening stimuli generally require action, whereas appetitive stimuli can often be safely ignored. In this study, we examine whether amygdala activation to positive stimuli may be more sensitive to task goals than negative stimuli, which are often related to self-preservation concerns. During fMRI, participants were presented with two images that varied on valence and extremity and were instructed to focus on one of the images. Results indicated that negative stimuli elicited greater amygdala activity regardless of task relevance. In contrast, positive stimuli only led to a relative increase in amygdala activity when they were task relevant. This suggests that the amygdala may be more responsive to negative stimuli regardless of their relevance to immediate goals, whereas positive stimuli may only elicit amygdala activity when they are relevant to the perceivers' goals. This pattern of valence asymmetry in the human amygdala may help balance approach-related goal pursuit with chronic self-preservation goals.

Impramine, fluoxetine and clozapine differently affected reactivity to positive and negative stimuli in a model of motivational anhedonia in rats

Neuroscience ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 189-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Scheggi ◽  
T. Pelliccia ◽  
A. Ferrari ◽  
M.G. De Montis ◽  
C. Gambarana
Keyword(s):  
Negative Stimuli

Valence Asymmetry in Attitude Formation

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 650-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie J. Shook ◽  
Russ Clay
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Evaluative Conditioning ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Conditioning Paradigm ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
The World ◽  
Positive Stimuli ◽  
Negative Stimuli

A considerable amount of research indicates that political conservatives and liberals perceive their social worlds very differently, with conservatives perceiving the world more negatively than liberals. Two studies examined how these varying perceptions may develop by exploring the relation between political ideology and attitude formation. In both studies, participants completed an evaluative conditioning paradigm in which novel stimuli were paired with either positive or negative images. Political conservatives were more susceptible to conditioning with negative stimuli than conditioning with positive stimuli as compared to political liberals. Specifically, conservatives were less susceptible to conditioning with positive stimuli than liberals. Conditioning with negative stimuli did not differ by political ideology. These findings suggest fundamental differences in the formation of positive versus negative attitudes between conservatives and liberals.

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