Phasic affective signals by themselves do not regulate cognitive control

Bognar, Miklos, Gyurkovics, Mate, van Steenbergen, Henk and Aczel, Balazs (2023) Phasic affective signals by themselves do not regulate cognitive control. Cognition and Emotion, 37 (4). pp. 650-665. ISSN 0269-9931

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Abstract

Cognitive control is a set of mechanisms that help us process conflicting stimuli and maintain goal-relevant behaviour. According to the Affective Signalling Hypothesis, conflicting stimuli are aversive and thus elicit (negative) affect, moreover–to avoid aversive signals–affective and cognitive systems work together by increasing control and thus, drive conflict adaptation. Several studies have found that affective stimuli can indeed modulate conflict adaptation, however, there is currently no evidence that phasic affective states not triggered by conflict also trigger improved cognitive control. To investigate this possibility, we intermixed trials of a conflict task and trials involving the passive viewing of emotional words. We tested whether affective states induced by affective words in a given trial trigger improved cognitive control in a subsequent conflict trial. Applying Bayesian analysis, the results of four experiments supported the lack of adaptation to aversive signals, both in terms of valence and arousal. These results suggest that phasic affective states by themselves are not sufficient to elicit an increase in control.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data accessibility statement: All of our analyses were publicly preregistered on the OSF site Collected raw data is publicly shared on the OSF pages of the project. Code for data management and statistical analyses were written in R and are open access. All materials of the experiments are available through OSF: (Affective wordset analysis: https://osf.io/rpcw7/; Prime-probe experiments: https://osf.io/jzp9w/; Flanker experiments: https://osf.io/z7w5c/). Funding Information: This project [134918] has been implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the [FK_20] funding scheme.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	affective signals,cognitive control,conflict adaptation,experimental and cognitive psychology,developmental and educational psychology,arts and humanities (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2024 13:30
Last Modified:	13 Aug 2024 15:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96232
DOI:	10.1080/02699931.2023.2191172

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