The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex

AJ Shackman, TV Salomons, HA Slagter… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
It has been argued that emotion, pain and cognitive control are functionally segregated in
distinct subdivisions of the cingulate cortex. However, recent observations encourage a …

Conflict monitoring and the affective-signaling hypothesis—An integrative review

D Dignath, AB Eder, M Steinhauser, A Kiesel - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2020 - Springer
Conflict-monitoring theory proposes that conflict between incompatible responses is
registered by a dedicated monitoring system, and that this conflict signal triggers changes of …

Prepotent motor activity and inhibitory control demands in different variants of the go/no‐go paradigm

JR Wessel - Psychophysiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Inhibitory control enables humans to stop prepotent motor activity, and is commonly studied
using go/no‐go or stop‐signal tasks. In stop‐signal tasks, prepotent motor activity is elicited …

A comparison of the Affectiva iMotions Facial Expression Analysis Software with EMG for identifying facial expressions of emotion

L Kulke, D Feyerabend, A Schacht - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Human faces express emotions, informing others about their affective states. In order to
measure expressions of emotion, facial Electromyography (EMG) has widely been used …

Conflicts as aversive signals: Conflict priming increases negative judgments for neutral stimuli

J Fritz, G Dreisbach - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Botvinick, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 7: 356–366 (2007)
recently suggested that competing theories of the monitoring function of the anterior …

Pupil dilation in the Simon task as a marker of conflict processing

H Van Steenbergen, GPH Band - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Cognitive demands in response conflict paradigms trigger negative affect and avoidance
behavior. However, not all response conflict studies show increases in physiological indices …

Reward and punishment effects on error processing and conflict control

B Stürmer, R Nigbur, A Schacht, W Sommer - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Recently, positive affect has been reported to reduce cognitive conflicts and adaptations
related to conflict control. van Steenbergen et al. proposed that the aversive quality of …

Evidence for the automatic evaluation of self-generated actions

K Aarts, J De Houwer, G Pourtois - Cognition, 2012 - Elsevier
The accuracy of simple actions is swiftly determined through specific monitoring brain
systems. However, it remains unclear whether this evaluation is accompanied by a rapid …

Error‐related electromyographic activity over the corrugator supercilii is associated with neural performance monitoring

N Elkins‐Brown, B Saunders, M Inzlicht - Psychophysiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging research in social and affective neuroscience has implicated a role for affect and
motivation in performance monitoring and cognitive control. No study, however, has …

In your face: Risk of punishment enhances cognitive control and error-related activity in the corrugator supercilii muscle

BR Lindström, IB Mattsson-Mårn, A Golkar, A Olsson - PLOS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Cognitive control is needed when mistakes have consequences, especially when such
consequences are potentially harmful. However, little is known about how the aversive …