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- Title
Proactive engagement of cognitive control modulates implicit approach-avoidance bias.
- Authors
Harlé, Katia M.; Bomyea, Jessica; Spadoni, Andrea D.; Simmons, Alan N.; Taylor, Charles T.
- Abstract
Implicit social-affective biases—reflected in a propensity to approach positive and avoid negative stimuli—have been documented in humans with paradigms, such as the Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT). However, the degree to which preemptively engaging cognitive control can help to down-regulate those behavioral tendencies remains poorly understood. While undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 24 healthy participants completed a cued version of the AAT, in which they responded to pictures of happy or angry faces by pulling a joystick toward themselves (approach) or pushing the joystick away (avoidance) based on the color of the stimulus frame. On some trials, they were cued to reverse the frame color/joystick action instructions. Before stimulus onset, a reverse cue was associated with deactivation of a visuo-spatial and motor planning network and subsequent slowing down in response to stimuli. During the stimulus phase, a reverse cue was associated with a) activation of cognitive control areas, including the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and right inferior parietal lobule (IPL); and b) reduced right precentral gyrus activation when having to push (avoid) a happy face. Overall, these results suggest that proactively engaging cognitive control can help fine-tune behavioral and neural adjustment to emotionally incongruent behavioral conditions.
- Subjects
FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging; IMPLICIT learning; JOYSTICKS
- Publication
Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 5, p998
- ISSN
1530-7026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13415-020-00815-3