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Brain Systems Mediating Cognitive Interference by Emotional Distraction
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Flexible behavior depends on our ability to cope with distracting stimuli that can interfere with the attainment of goals. Emotional distracters can be particularly disruptive to goal-oriented behavior, but the neural systems through which these detrimental effects are mediated are not known. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the effect of emotional and nonemotional distracters on a delayed-response working memory (WM) task. As expected, this task evoked robust activity during the delay period in typical WM regions (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and lateral parietal cortex). Presentation of emotional distracters during the delay interval evoked strong activity in typical emotional processing regions (amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex) while simultaneously evoking relative deactivation of the WM regions and impairing WM performance. These results provide the first direct evidence that the detrimental effect of emotional distracters on ongoing cognitive processes entails the interaction between a dorsal neural system associated with “cold” executive processing and a ventral system associated with “hot” emotional processing.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dolcos, F., & McCarthy, G.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McCarthy, Gregory
- ORCID
- Dolcos, Florin
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2006-02-15
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2072-2079
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6674921
- OpenAlex
- W2066186035
- Cited by
- 663
- References
- 54
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- FWCI
- 12.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Institutes of Health (NS41328, MH60451)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH-05286, R01MH005286, P50MH60451, P50MH060451)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P01NS041328, P01-NS41328)
- NIH Clinical Center
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Keywords
- emotional distraction, cognitive interference, working memory, emotional distracters, amygdala, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, lateral parietal cortex, executive function, emotional processing, delay period, neural deactivation, goal-directed behavior
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Cognition, Emotions, Face, Female, Humans, Functional Laterality, Male, Memory, Reaction Time
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