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- Title
Emotion and executive functioning: the effect of normal mood states on fluency tasks.
- Authors
Carvalho, Janessa O; Ready, Rebecca E
- Abstract
Induced positive affect (PA) can improve verbal fluency performance, and induced negative affect (NA) can increase design fluency performance (Bartolic, Basso, Schefft, Glauser, & Titanic-Schefft, 1999). Building on this, the current study investigated associations between everyday mood states and executive functions. Participants (N = 74, mean age = 51.19 years) completed verbal and design fluency tasks and a self-report affect task. PA was associated with better verbal fluency performance, although NA was not associated with design fluency. Variations in everyday PA may be associated with cognitive performance, whereas greater shifts in NA might be needed to establish associations with executive functioning.
- Publication
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2010, Vol 32, Issue 3, p225
- ISSN
1744-411X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/13803390902902458