Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs.

ABSTRACT: The control of emotions is of potentially great clinical relevance. Accordingly, there has been increasing interest in understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability to switch efficiently between the processing of affective and non-affective information. Reports of asymmetrically increased switch costs when switching toward the more salient emotion task indicate specific demands in the flexible control of emotion. The neural mechanisms underlying affective task switching, however, are so far not fully understood. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (N = 57), we observed that affective task switching was accompanied by increased activity in domain-general fronto-parietal control systems. Blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) activity in the posterior medial fronta

SUBMITTER: Eckart C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949498 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature