Emotional Modulation of Cognitive and Emotional Control
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 352
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our surrounding environment is filled with various sources of information (e.g., visual, audio, tactile) that compete for our attention and are frequently conflicting in nature. Whether we are driving, listening to a conversation or studying, concentration on the task at hand and the elimination of task-irrelevant distractors is critical to maintain coherent goal-directed behavior. Conflicts between competing stimuli can be resolved by selectively enhancing task-relevant stimuli and/or inhibiting task-irrelevant sources of information, a process referred to as cognitive control. Cognitive control is an umbrella term that includes various cognitive functions, such as working memory, flexibility in task shifting and problem solving, as well as response conflict. Interestingly, there is some evidence indicating that people’s emotional states as well as the emotional valence of the processed information can modulate cognitive control by either enhancing or hindering conflict processing. Emotional conflict is an interesting kind of cognitive conflict created between opposing emotional stimuli. Common social phenomena such as irony and satire are good examples of emotional conflict. The aim of the current Special Issue is to further explore behavioral, cognitive and neuroscientific underpinnings of the emotional modulation of cognitive and emotional control, in both healthy and diseased brains and across different age groups.
Dr. Artyom Zinchenko
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cognitive control
- conflict processing
- emotional conflict processing
- affective modulation of executive control
- negative emotion
- positive emotion
- EEG
- fMRI
- TMS
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