Dreisbach, Gesine and Fischer, Rico (2012) Conflicts as aversive signals. BRAIN AND COGNITION, 78 (2). pp. 94-98. ISSN 0278-2626,
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Theories of human action control deal with the question of how cognitive control is dynamically adjusted to task demands. The conflict monitoring theory of anterior cingulate (ACC) function suggests that the ACC monitors for response conflicts in the ongoing processing stream thereby triggering the mobilization of cognitive control. Alternatively, the outcome evaluation account of ACC function suggests that the ACC monitors for negative performance outcomes, an information that serves as an aversive learning signal for future action selection. Botvinick (2007) recently suggested that both theories might converge on the detection of aversive signals in general. Here, the authors provide first evidence that conflicts are registered as aversive signals. Congruent and incongruent Stroop color-words served as primes, and positive and negative stimuli as targets in an affective priming paradigm. Negative targets were evaluated faster after incongruent than after congruent Stroop primes, and positive targets were evaluated slower after incongruent than after congruent primes. The finding that conflicts are actually registered as aversive signals bridges the gap between competing theories of ACC function and has broad theoretical and behavioral implications as it makes the conflict monitoring theory applicable to a much wider range of situations and tasks. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; MEDIAL FRONTAL-CORTEX; COGNITIVE CONTROL; AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION; INTERFERENCE; EXCLUSION; RESPONSES; FLUENCY; PAIN; Cognitive control; Conflict monitoring; Anterior cingulate cortex; Affective priming |
| 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: | 19 May 2020 07:03 |
| Last Modified: | 19 May 2020 07:03 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/19207 |
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