Emotion and goal-directed behavior: ERP evidence on cognitive and emotional conflict.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive control supports goal-directed behavior by resolving conflict among opposing action tendencies. Emotion can trigger cognitive control processes, thus speeding up conflict processing when the target dimension of stimuli is emotional. However, it is unclear what role emotionality of the target dimension plays in the processing of emotional conflict (e.g. in irony). In two EEG experiments, we compared the influence of emotional valence of the target (emotional, neutral) in cognitive and emotional conflict processing. To maximally approximate real-life communication, we used audiovisual stimuli. Participants either categorized spoken vowels (cognitive conflict) or their emotional valence (emotional conflict), while visual information was congruent or incongruent. Emotional target dim

SUBMITTER: Zinchenko A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4631156 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature