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Int J Psychophysiol. 2020 Jan;147:193-201. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.10.018. Epub 2019 Nov 16.

Moving towards dynamics: Emotional modulation of cognitive and emotional control.

International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology

Artyom Zinchenko, Sonja A Kotz, Erich Schröger, Philipp Kanske

Affiliations

  1. Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neuropsychology, Leipzig, Germany; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
  3. Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany.
  4. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Research Group Social Stress and Family Health, Leipzig, Germany; Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

PMID: 31738953 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.10.018

Abstract

Cognitive control is influenced by affective states and the emotional quality of the stimulus it operates on. In the present review, we address how emotional valence influences control processes, distinguish between different types of conflicts (cognitive, emotional), examine physiological correlates of cognition - emotion interactions, and discuss recent work on this interaction in multisensory contexts. We show converging evidence that positive and negative emotions differentially affect cognitive and emotional conflict processing, when the emotional stimulus dimension is or is not task-relevant. These effects are found particularly early in dynamic, multisensory stimuli as the stimulus dimensions can correctly or incorrectly predict one another, and lead to very rapid effects of emotion on cognitive control. We suggest that future research on emotion-cognition interactions should "move towards dynamics" and develop multisensory testing environments that approach real-world complexity.

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Keywords: Cognitive control; Emotional control; Multisensory processing; Negative emotion; Positive emotion

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