Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence of gender differences in the modulation of distraction by the emotional context

García-García, Manuel; Domínguez-Borràs, Judith; SanMiguel, Iria; Escera, Carles

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.07.006

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“…Additionally, in the negative emotional context, response times were longer than in the neutral context which implicates that the novel sounds effectively caused distraction and the emotionally negative context effectively disrupted performance. However, the emotional context did not significantly modulate the electrophysiological response to auditory distraction, contrasting with previous studies Garcia-Garcia et al, 2008) which found an enhancement of the visual P300 for emotionally negative stimuli . Nevertheless, in studies using faces, some authors have found visual P300 enhancement by fearful faces (Luo et al, 2010), while others reported no changes in P300 amplitude (Balconi and Lucchiari, 2005) as in the present study.…”

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Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing — A behavioral and electrophysiological approach

Vale¹,

Selinger²,

Martins³

et al. 2015

Hormones and Behavior

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Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) may have mood enhancement effects: higher DHEAS concentrations and DHEA/cortisol ratio have been related to lower depression scores and controlled trials of DHEA administration have reported significant antidepressant effects. The balance between DHEAS and DHEA has been suggested to influence brain functioning. We explored DHEAS, DHEA, cortisol, DHEA/cortisol and DHEAS/DHEA ratios relations to the processing of negative emotional stimuli at behavioral and brain levels by recording the electroencephalogram of 21 young women while performing a visual task with implicit neutral or negative emotional content in an audio-visual oddball paradigm. For each condition, salivary DHEA, DHEAS and cortisol were measured before performing the task and at 30 and 60min intervals. DHEA increased after task performance, independent of the implicit emotional content. With implicit negative emotion, higher DHEAS/DHEA and DHEA/cortisol ratios before task performance were related to shorter visual P300 latencies suggesting faster brain processing under a negative emotional context. In addition, higher DHEAS/DHEA ratios were related to reduced visual P300 amplitudes, indicating less processing of the negative emotional stimuli. With this study, we could show that at the electrophysiological level, higher DHEAS/DHEA and DHEA/cortisol ratios were related to shorter stimulus evaluation times suggesting less interference of the implicit negative content of the stimuli with the task. Furthermore, higher DHEAS/DHEA ratios were related to reduced processing of negative emotional stimuli which may eventually constitute a protective mechanism against negative information overload.

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Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing — A behavioral and electrophysiological approach

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Selinger²,

Martins³

et al. 2015

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“…Thus, while both men and women become consciously aware and capable of cognitive processing of stimuli at equal points in time following stimulus presentation, women apparently give greater attention to stimuli at a conscious level, particularly with emotional stimuli. This may be why under certain experimental conditions, women's P300, the portion of an evoked potential considered to refl ect cognitive activity, is modulated by emotional context to a greater extent than men's (Garcia-Garcia, Dominguez-Borras, SanMiguel, & Escera, 2008 ). Emotional contagion studies reveal similar results.…”

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The Neuropsychological Basis of Emotion and Social Cognition in Men

Zaroff

2015

The Neuropsychology of Men

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“…These studies, along with the current observation of deficits of attentional inhibition in women, suggest that poor attentional control might be an important predictor of excessive alcohol use for women. Indeed, women have been shown to be more easily distracted by novel stimuli, and to be more sensitive to the influence of attentional cues (Bayliss et al, 2005; Garcia-Garcia et al, 2008; Stoet, 2010). As such, it is possible that alcohol-related cues might be more difficult for female drinkers to ignore, and this might be an important contributing factor for excessive alcohol consumption in women.…”

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Comparison of alcohol impairment of behavioral and attentional inhibition

Weafer

Fillmore

2012

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background Despite the wealth of studies demonstrating the impairing effects of alcohol on behavioral inhibition, less is known regarding effects of the drug on attentional inhibition (i.e., the ability to ignore distracting stimuli in the environment in order to focus attention on relevant information). The current study examined alcohol impairment of both behavioral and attentional inhibition, as well as potential associations between the two mechanisms of inhibitory control. Methods Men (n = 27) and women (n = 21) performed a measure of behavioral inhibition (cued go/no-go task) and a measure of attentional inhibition (delayed ocular return task) following three doses of alcohol: 0.65 g/kg, 0.45 g/kg, and 0.0 g/kg (placebo). Results Alcohol impaired both behavioral and attentional inhibition relative to placebo; however, correlational analyses revealed no associations between measures of behavioral and attentional inhibition following any dose. Additionally, men committed more inhibitory failures on the behavioral inhibition task, whereas women committed more inhibitory failures on the attentional inhibition task. Conclusions These findings suggest that behavioral and attentional inhibition are equally sensitive to the impairing effects of alcohol, yet represent distinct components of inhibitory control. Additionally, the observed gender differences in control of behavior and attention could have important implications regarding negative consequences associated with alcohol-induced disinhibition in men and women.

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Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence of gender differences in the modulation of distraction by the emotional context

Cited by 37 publications

References 61 publications

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing — A behavioral and electrophysiological approach

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing — A behavioral and electrophysiological approach

The Neuropsychological Basis of Emotion and Social Cognition in Men

Comparison of alcohol impairment of behavioral and attentional inhibition

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