Fritz, Julia and Dreisbach, Gesine (2013) Conflicts as aversive signals: Conflict priming increases negative judgments for neutral stimuli. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, 13 (2). pp. 311-317. ISSN 1530-7026, 1531-135X
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Botvinick, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 7:356-366 (2007) recently suggested that competing theories of the monitoring function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) for cognitive control might converge on the detection of aversive signals in general, implying that response conflicts, a known trigger of ACC activation, are aversive, too. Recent evidence showing conflict priming (i.e., faster responses to negative targets after conflict primes) directly supports this notion but remains inconclusive with regard to possible confounds with processing fluency. To this end, two experiments were conducted to offer more compelling evidence for the negative valence of conflicts. Participants were primed by (conflict and nonconflict) Stroop stimuli and subsequently had to judge the valence of neutral German words (Experiment 1a) or Chinese pictographs (Experiment 1b). Results showed that conflict, as compared with nonconflict, primes led to more negative judgments of subsequently presented neutral target stimuli. The findings will be discussed in the light of existing theories of action control highlighting the role of aversive signals for sequential processing adjustments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; ERROR-RELATED NEGATIVITY; COLOR-WORD INTERFERENCE; COGNITIVE CONTROL; PROCESSING FLUENCY; AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION; STROOP TASK; SIMON TASK; RESPONSES; Cognitive control; Conflict; Priming; Anterior cingulate cortex |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2020 05:19 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2020 05:19 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/16643 |
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