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Valence and arousal of words in visual and conceptual interference control efficiency

Cognitive control efficiency is susceptible to the emotional state of an individual. The aim of the current experiment was to search for the role of valence and arousal of emotion-laden words in a performance efficiency of a modified emotional Stroop task (EST) combined with the flanker task. Both p...

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Autores principales: Imbir, Kamil K., Pastwa, Maciej, Jankowska, Marta, Kosman, Marcin, Modzelewska, Aleksandra, Wielgopolan, Adrianna
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33211720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241694
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author Imbir, Kamil K.
Pastwa, Maciej
Jankowska, Marta
Kosman, Marcin
Modzelewska, Aleksandra
Wielgopolan, Adrianna
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description Cognitive control efficiency is susceptible to the emotional state of an individual. The aim of the current experiment was to search for the role of valence and arousal of emotion-laden words in a performance efficiency of a modified emotional Stroop task (EST) combined with the flanker task. Both paradigms allow for the measurement of the interference control, but interference appears on different stages of stimulus processing. In the flanker task, the interference is perceptual, while in EST, it is based on the emotional meaning of stimuli. We expected to find the effects of emotionality of words, that is, arousal and valence levels, for interference measured with EST. In a series of two experiments, the results confirmed that a high arousal level enlarges the reaction latencies to the EST. We also identified interaction between valence and arousal in shaping reaction latencies. We found the flanker congruency effect. We did not find interactions between emotional factors and flanker congruency. This suggests that interference measured with the EST and flanker task are in fact different from one another, and while using the modified EST combined with the flanker task, the word-meaning effects do not interfere with pure perceptual interferences.
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spelling pubmed-76766912020-12-02 Valence and arousal of words in visual and conceptual interference control efficiency Imbir, Kamil K. Pastwa, Maciej Jankowska, Marta Kosman, Marcin Modzelewska, Aleksandra Wielgopolan, Adrianna PLoS One Research Article Cognitive control efficiency is susceptible to the emotional state of an individual. The aim of the current experiment was to search for the role of valence and arousal of emotion-laden words in a performance efficiency of a modified emotional Stroop task (EST) combined with the flanker task. Both paradigms allow for the measurement of the interference control, but interference appears on different stages of stimulus processing. In the flanker task, the interference is perceptual, while in EST, it is based on the emotional meaning of stimuli. We expected to find the effects of emotionality of words, that is, arousal and valence levels, for interference measured with EST. In a series of two experiments, the results confirmed that a high arousal level enlarges the reaction latencies to the EST. We also identified interaction between valence and arousal in shaping reaction latencies. We found the flanker congruency effect. We did not find interactions between emotional factors and flanker congruency. This suggests that interference measured with the EST and flanker task are in fact different from one another, and while using the modified EST combined with the flanker task, the word-meaning effects do not interfere with pure perceptual interferences. Public Library of Science 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7676691/ /pubmed/33211720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241694 Text en © 2020 Imbir et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kosman, Marcin
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title_short Valence and arousal of words in visual and conceptual interference control efficiency
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33211720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241694
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