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BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
Volume 146, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103963
Keywords
Action inhibition; Stop signal task; Emotional stimuli; Psychiatric disorders
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- Ministero della Salute, Italy [GR-2018-12365733, GR-2018-12366027, GR-2016-02361008]
- MIUR
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua
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This article reviews the impact of emotional stimuli on inhibitory control, discussing both the interference and advantage of emotional stimuli on action inhibition performance, as well as exploring their effects on individuals with psychiatric disorders. Key factors such as relevance, intensity, and valence of emotional stimuli, as well as the component of motor control affected, are highlighted in understanding how emotion integrates into core executive functions.
Efficient inhibitory control is vital. However, environmental cues can influence motor control especially in an emotional context. One common task to measure inhibitory control is the stop-signal task (SST), which asks participants to respond to go stimuli knowing that on some trials a stop signal will be presented, requiring them to inhibit their response. This paradigm estimates the ability to inhibit already-initiated responses by calculating participants' stop-signal reaction times (SSRT), an index of inhibitory control. Here, we aim to review the existing, often contradictory, evidence on the influence of emotional stimuli on the inhibitory process. We aim to discuss which factors may reveal an interference as well as an advantage of emotional stimuli on action inhibition performance. Finally, we review the existing evidence that has investigated the effect of such stimuli on action inhibition in the psychiatric population. Important factors are the relevance, the intensity and the valence of the emotional stimulus, as well as the affected component of the motor control. From all this evidence, it is clear that understand precisely how emotion is integrated into core executive functions, such as inhibitory control, is essential not only for cognitive neuroscience, but also for refining neurocognitive models of psychopathology.
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