Froeber, Kerstin and Stuermer, Birgit and Froemer, Romy and Dreisbach, Gesine (2017) The role of affective evaluation in conflict adaptation: An LRP study. BRAIN AND COGNITION, 116. pp. 9-16. ISSN 0278-2626, 1090-2147
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Conflict between incompatible response tendencies is typically followed by control adjustments aimed at diminishing subsequent conflicts, a phenomenon often called conflict adaptation. Dreisbach and Fischer (2015, 2016) recently proposed that it is not the conflict per se but the aversive quality of a conflict that originally motivates this kind of sequential control adjustment. With the present study we tested the causal role of aversive signals in conflict adaptation in a more direct way. To this end, after each trial of a vertical Simon task participants rated whether they experienced the last trial as rather pleasant or unpleasant. Conflict adaptation was measured via lateralized readiness potentials as a measure of early motor-related activation that were computed on the basis of event-related brain potentials. Results showed the typical suppression of automatic response activation following trials rated as unpleasant, whereas suppression was relaxed following trials rated as pleasant. That is, sequential control adaptation was not based on previous conflict but on the subjective affective experience. This is taken as evidence that negative affect even in the absence of actual conflict triggers subsequent control adjustments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COGNITIVE CONTROL; AVERSIVE SIGNALS; SIMON TASK; ACTIVATION; DRIVEN; INTERFERENCE; INFORMATION; EXPERIENCE; ASYMMETRY; RESPONSES; Conflict adaptation; Conflict monitoring; Negative affect; Cognitive control; LRP |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:16 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 13:10 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1496 |
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