Irrelevant positive emotional information facilitates response inhibition only under a high perceptual load.

ABSTRACT: Response inhibition involves suppressing those responses that are no longer needed. Previous research has separately studied the role of attentional resources and emotional information in response inhibition. Here, we simultaneously manipulate attentional resources and emotional information to investigate the interactive role of emotional information and attentional resources. Attentional resources were manipulated by changing the levels of perceptual load (low and high) of go signals. Emotional information was manipulated by changing the emotional content (irrelevant positive and negative emotional information) of the stop signals. Participants made a go response based on searching for a target letter in conditions of either low perceptual load or high perceptual load. They withheld their

SUBMITTER: Pandey S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9418248 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature