On the relationship between negative affective priming and prefrontal cognitive control mechanisms

Autor: Ramona Dinu-Biringer, Sven Barnow, Moritz C. Berger, Rosalux Falquez, Boris Kotchoubey, Frauke Nees, Simone Lang, Elisabeth A. Arens
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Prefrontal Cortex
Posterior parietal cortex
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Audiology
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Cognition
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Parietal Lobe
Repetition Priming
mental disorders
Negativity bias
Reaction Time
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Middle frontal gyrus
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
medicine.diagnostic_test
Functional Neuroimaging
05 social sciences
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Nap
Functional imaging
Affect
Female
Psychology
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Priming (psychology)
Photic Stimulation
psychological phenomena and processes
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Cognition and Emotion. 30:225-244
ISSN: 1464-0600
0269-9931
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.994476
Popis: Although several studies have examined inhibition of affective stimuli, valence-dependent cognitive control effects remain poorly understood. Behavioural and functional imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data were collected from 17 healthy participants to examine neural correlates of the Negative Affective Priming (NAP) task. We created relative ratio scores considering the reaction times of prime trials in order to assess the amount of interference after the presentation of negative and positive distracter words. Behavioural results showed an attenuated NAP effect for negative distracters compared to neutral stimuli. Furthermore, priming negative distracters generated more interference by reacting to the probe target than positive distracters. Neuroimaging data revealed a stronger prefrontal activation during negative NAP trials compared to positive NAP and neutral control trials, which was reflected in a heightened activation of superior and middle frontal gyrus as well as parietal cortex. The findings show the impact of negative distracters on prefrontal response, contributing to the understanding of NAP effects in healthy subjects.
Databáze: OpenAIRE