Task feedback effects on conflict monitoring and executive control: relationship to subclinical measures of depression.
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Emerging evidence suggests that depression is associated with executive dysfunction, particularly after committing errors or receiving negative performance feedback. To test this hypothesis, 57 participants performed two executive tasks known to elicit errors (the Simon and Stroop Tasks) during positive or negative performance feedback. Participants with elevated depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory scores >or= 13) were characterized by impaired posterror and postconflict performance adjustments, especially during emotionally negative task-related feedback. Additionally, for both tasks, depressive symptoms were inversely related to postconflict reaction time adjustments following negative, but not positive, feedback. These findings suggest that subclinical depression is associated with impairments in behavioral adjustments after internal (perceived failure) and external feedback about deficient task performance.
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A negative affective state greatly influences and alters executive functions, reflected in planning, sustained attention, and cognitive flexibility tasks.
“Studies have also shown that a negative affective state greatly influences and alters EFs, which is reflected in different tasks such as the planning test, sustained attention tasks, and cognitive flexibility tasks (Holmes and Pizzagalli, 2007; He and Yin, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Holmes, A. J., & Pizzagalli, D. A.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-76
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- PMC
- PMC3196340
- OpenAlex
- W2112882617
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 6
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- FWCI
- 4.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Ditmars Restricted Fund
- Allport Fund
- Stimson Fund
- Harvard University
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH68376)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- subthreshold depression, depressive symptoms, conflict monitoring, executive function, performance feedback, negative feedback, Simon task, Stroop task, executive dysfunction, reaction time
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Cognition Disorders, Conflict, Psychological, Depression, Feedback, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reaction Time, Regression Analysis, Severity of Illness Index
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