Current Emotion Research in Cognitive Neuroscience: Linking Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Emotion on Cognition

Dolcos, Florin; Denkova, Ekaterina

doi:10.1177/1754073914536449

Cited by 52 publications

(48 citation statements)

References 125 publications

(185 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…It has been suggested that emotional information can either enhance or impair behavioral performance depending on how it interacts with the control functions (Pessoa, ). Specifically, emotional stimuli can enhance cognitive activity when the emotional information is task‐relevant, whereas emotional stimuli impair task performance when the emotional information is task‐irrelevant (Dolcos et al, ; Dolcos and Denkova, ). The emotional conditions we used for the current dimension of emotional interference included task‐irrelevant emotional information, which produced detrimental effects rather than beneficial effects on task performance.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dissociations of cognitive inhibition, response inhibition, and emotional interference: Voxelwise ALE meta‐analyses of fMRI studies

Hung

Gaillard

Yarmak

et al. 2018

Human Brain Mapping

142

111

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Inhibitory control is the stopping of a mental process with or without intention, conceptualized as mental suppression of competing information because of limited cognitive capacity. Inhibitory control dysfunction is a core characteristic of many major psychiatric disorders. Inhibition is generally thought to involve the prefrontal cortex; however, a single inhibitory mechanism is insufficient for interpreting the heterogeneous nature of human cognition. It remains unclear whether different dimensions of inhibitory processes-specifically cognitive inhibition, response inhibition, and emotional interference-rely on dissociated neural systems. We conducted systematic meta-analyses of fMRI studies in the BrainMap database supplemented by PubMed using whole-brain activation likelihood estimation. A total of 66 study experiments including 1,447 participants and 987 foci revealed that while the left anterior insula was concordant in all inhibitory dimensions, cognitive inhibition reliably activated specific dorsal frontal inhibitory system, engaging dorsal anterior cingulate, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and parietal areas, whereas emotional interference reliably implicated a ventral inhibitory system, involving the ventral surface of the inferior frontal gyrus and the amygdala. Response inhibition showed concordant clusters in the fronto-striatal system, including the dorsal anterior cingulate region and extended supplementary motor areas, the dorsal and ventral lateral prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, midbrain regions, and parietal regions. We provide an empirically derived dimensional model of inhibition characterizing neural systems underlying different aspects of inhibitory mechanisms. This study offers a fundamental framework to advance current understanding of inhibition and provides new insights for future clinical research into disorders with different types of inhibition-related dysfunctions.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dissociations of cognitive inhibition, response inhibition, and emotional interference: Voxelwise ALE meta‐analyses of fMRI studies

Hung

Gaillard

Yarmak

et al. 2018

Human Brain Mapping

142

111

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Emotionality is an important generator of linguistic activity (Nowakowski, ), and it can interact with language at many levels of structure, from the sound patterns of language, to its lexicon and grammar, and beyond to how it appears in conversation and discourse (Majid, ). As such, emotion influences various cognitive processes, and the effects can be either beneficial/enhancing or detrimental/impairing (Dolcos and Denkova, ). The impact of emotion has been investigated at various stages of memory (encoding, consolidation, retrieval; Tulving, ) mainly within the theoretical framework of affective dimensions, valence and arousal (Osgood et al, ).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impact of emotion has been investigated at various stages of memory (encoding, consolidation, retrieval; Tulving, ) mainly within the theoretical framework of affective dimensions, valence and arousal (Osgood et al, ). Brain imaging studies have pointed to two mechanisms guiding this relationship: 1) bottom‐up, guided by the stimuli, embracing preattentive/prioritized processing and orchestrated by amygdala (AMY)–medial temporal lobe (MTL) interactions, and 2) top‐down, guided by the current goals, referring to enhanced elaboration of emotional information and linked to the modulatory influences from prefrontal cortex (PFC) and lateral prefrontal cortex (LPC; Dolcos and Denkova, ; Holland and Kensinger, ).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of emotion on memory for words and their context

Riegel

Wierzba

Grabowska

et al. 2015

J of Comparative Neurology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Emotion influences various cognitive processes, such as memory. This beneficial or detrimental effect can be studied with verbal material, yet in this case a broad term of context has to be taken into account. The present work reviews recent literature and proposes that traditional differentiation between semantic and environmental context should be replaced with a novel conceptualization of hippocampus-dependent relational memory and item memory (related to the activations of cuneus and left amygdala). Additionally, instead of list-learning paradigms, words should be memorized in the context of sentences or stories for better control over their meaning. The recent evidence suggests that of particular importance for ecological validity in research paradigms is the presence of communicative and social context of verbal material related to such processes as theory of mind and brain activations in temporoparietal junction, posterior cingulate cortex, and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex. We propose that studying memory of verbal material within context gives a better understanding of enhancing and impairing effects of emotion as well as of the underlying brain mechanisms.

show abstract

“…anterior horn of the lateral ventricle and inferior horn of the lateral ventricle and here in the floor of the inferior horn hippocampus right here its different layers of neurons give it that striped appearance when we turn it section around [20]. We are now more anterior and we can see the amygdala, it lies superior and anterior to the hippocampus [21].…”

Section: Daisymentioning

confidence: 85%

Brain and Behavior – Hypothalamus and Limbic System: The Neurobiology of Emotions

Daisy

2017

Asian J Pharm Clin Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is intuitive to understand how sensory information gets to the brain and how motor information can travel to the muscles together where these two systems allow us to detect and respond to the world around us but how do we engage with that world, how do we determine what is important, and how do we fall in the analysis. These higher cortical functions involve the complex interplay between neurotransmitters and hormones throughout the entire nervous system. There are two major anatomical behaviors; the limbic system and hypothalamus. These structures that support much higher cortical functions hypothalamus is a very small structure but it is absolutely critical for life and it allows us to respond to both the internal and external environment and to maintain homeostasis. The limbic system is important for learning and memory, and all emotional aspects of behavior importantly limbic and hypothalamic structures are interconnected with each other. Let's begin with an anatomical overview of the hypothalamus in the middle section. You can delineate the hypothalamus from the thalamus through the hypothalamic sulcus anteriorly, the hypothalamus extends to the anterior commissure, and the optic chiasm inferiorly and it includes the mammillary bodies and extends to the infundibula stock where it communicates with the pituitary glands. It is a coronal section through the brain. It is the third ventricle, you can identify the thalamus on either side of the third ventricle and underneath; the thalamus is the hypothalamus and it extends laterally to these descending fiber bundles which are part of the internal capsule. The hypothalamus is structurally part of the diencephalon but it functions as part of the limbic system through reciprocal connections. It helps to maintain homeostasis in the entire body through influences on the endocrine system and importantly through its primary influence on both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems; the limbic system is extremely old from an evolutionary perspective in its connections and it is interposed between the hypothalamus and the neocortex and providing a bridge between endocrine visceral emotional and voluntary responses to the environment.

show abstract

Current Emotion Research in Cognitive Neuroscience: Linking Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Emotion on Cognition

Cited by 52 publications

References 125 publications

Dissociations of cognitive inhibition, response inhibition, and emotional interference: Voxelwise ALE meta‐analyses of fMRI studies

Dissociations of cognitive inhibition, response inhibition, and emotional interference: Voxelwise ALE meta‐analyses of fMRI studies

Effect of emotion on memory for words and their context

Brain and Behavior – Hypothalamus and Limbic System: The Neurobiology of Emotions

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About