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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Pacios J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4421942 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
García-Pacios Javier J Del Río David D Villalobos Dolores D Ruiz-Vargas José M JM Maestú Fernando F
Frontiers in psychology 20150506
Emotional stimuli automatically recruit attentional resources. Although this usually brings more adaptive responses, it may suppose a disadvantage when emotional information is task-irrelevant and should be ignored. Previous studies have shown how emotional stimuli with a negative content exert a greater interference than neutral stimuli during a concurrent working memory (WM) task. However, the impact of positively valenced stimuli as interference has not been addressed to date. In three experi ...[more]