Preliminary ERP evidence of the impact of loneliness on Stroop interference for socio-emotional stimuli.

ABSTRACT: Growing evidence highlights the adverse clinical effects and societal implications of loneliness, i.e., the negative feeling associated with a perceived discrepancy between desired and existing social connections. To further understand the implicit attentional and cognitive control processes associated with loneliness, we used electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the relationship between loneliness levels and brain activity underlying attentional capture in a socio-emotional Stroop task. In keeping with previous reports of three-stage processing of socio-emotional words, positive-negative valence and social-individual content of word stimuli were reflected in the amplitude of ERP components associated with high-order perceptual processing and prel

SUBMITTER: Arioli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12728010 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature