Social exclusion modulates priorities of attention allocation in cognitive control.

ABSTRACT: Many studies have investigated how exclusion affects cognitive control and have reported inconsistent results. However, these studies usually treated cognitive control as a unitary concept, whereas it actually involved two main sub-processes: conflict detection and response implementation. Furthermore, existing studies have focused primarily on exclusion's effects on conscious cognitive control, while recent studies have shown the existence of unconscious cognitive control. Therefore, the present study investigated whether and how exclusion affects the sub-processes underlying conscious and unconscious cognitive control differently. The Cyberball game was used to manipulate social exclusion and participants subsequently performed a masked Go/No-Go task during which event-related potentials

SUBMITTER: Xu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980633 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature