Emotional Contexts Exert a Distracting Effect on Attention and Inhibitory Control in Female and Male Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents exhibit difficulties in behavioral regulation that become more evident when emotional contexts are involved, since these may hinder the development of socially-adaptive behaviors. The objectives of the present study were: to examine the influence of emotional contexts on adolescents' ability to inhibit a prepotent response, evaluated by ERPs, and to determine whether sex differences in response inhibition are observed in adolescents in those contexts. Participants performed a prepotent response inhibition task (Go-NoGo) under 3 background context conditions: neutral, pleasant, and unpleasant. While no differences in accuracy were observed, the presence of emotional contexts did prolong reaction times compared to the neutral context. Also, the unpleasant context caused an enhanc

SUBMITTER: Ramos-Loyo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5437040 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature