The point of no return in the Emotional Stop-Signal Task: A matter of affect or method?

ABSTRACT: An affective variant of the Stop-Signal task was used to study the interaction between emotion and response inhibition (RI) in healthy young participants. The task involved the covert presentation of emotional faces as go stimuli, as well as a manipulation of motivation and affect by inducing a negative mood through the assignment of unfair punishment. In the literature on emotion and RI, there are contrasting findings reflecting the variability in the method used to calculate the RI latency, namely the Stop-Signal Reaction Time (SSRT). In fact, previous studies found both facilitatory and detrimental effects of affective manipulations over RI. However, they did not use the most robust SSRT estimation approach, namely the integration, casting some doubts on the reliability of the inference

SUBMITTER: Coccaro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11620632 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature