On ignoring words—exploring the neural signature of inhibition of affective words using ERPs

Seib-Pfeifer, Laura-Effi; Koppehele-Gossel, Judith; Gibbons, Henning

doi:10.1007/s00221-019-05597-w

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“…In a further analysis on prime-related ERPs in our delayed mask trials, we also found a left-parietal negativity in an early time range (extending from 150 to 250 after prime onset), which was significantly decreased in high-WMC compared to low-WMC participants. This attenuated posterior negativity in the high-WMC group, which resembles the N170 ERP reported by Seib-Pfeifer et al (2019) , did reliably correlate with the size of the behavioral NP shown by these individuals ( r = −0.438, p = 0.025, r -critical value = −0.388). In addition, this negative component did significantly correlate with the WMC (z-composite) scores ( r = 0.298, p = 0.032, r -critical value = 0.259).…”

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“…Some recent studies have reported a modulation of the (left-parietal) N170 ERP component elicited by the (irrelevant) prime word. This early component, assumed to reflect intentional word inhibition, was less negative when participants were instructed to explicitly ignore to the prime, as compared to an uninstructed (control) condition ( Seib-Pfeifer et al, 2019 ). In a further analysis on prime-related ERPs in our delayed mask trials, we also found a left-parietal negativity in an early time range (extending from 150 to 250 after prime onset), which was significantly decreased in high-WMC compared to low-WMC participants.…”

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Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Modulate Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Negative Priming From Single Words

Megías

Ortells

Carmona

et al. 2021

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were registered during a semantic negative priming (NP) task in participants with higher and lower working memory capacity (WMC). On each trial participants had to actively ignore a briefly presented single prime word, which was followed either immediately or after a delay by a mask. Thereafter, either a semantically related or an unrelated target word was presented, to which participants made a semantic categorization judgment. The ignored prime produced a behavioral semantic NP in delayed (but not in immediate) masking trials, and only for participants with a higher-WMC. Both masking type and WMC also modulated ERP priming effects. When the ignored prime was immediately followed by a mask (which impeded its conscious identification) a reliable N400 modulation was found irrespective of participants’ WMC. However, when the mask onset following the prime was delayed (thus allowing its conscious identification), an attenuation of a late positive ERP (LPC) was observed in related compared to unrelated trials, but only in the higher-WMC group showing reliable behavioral NP. The present findings demonstrate for the first time that individual differences in WMC modulate both behavioral measures and electrophysiological correlates of semantic NP.

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Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Modulate Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Negative Priming From Single Words

Megías

Ortells

Carmona

et al. 2021

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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“…For example, this type of attention increases the likelihood that an individual becomes consciously aware of current affect, which is a prerequisite for the recruitment of various forms of emotion regulation. These may involve inhibition of affective input (e.g., Moser et al, 2006; Seib‐Pfeifer et al, 2019), avoidance of, withdrawal from, or modification of highly emotional situations (e.g., Gross & Thompson, 2007), or conscious counter‐control (i.e., discounting of affective input, to reduce unwanted influences of affective context on evaluative judgments; Gibbons et al, 2014; Seib‐Pfeifer & Gibbons, 2019).…”

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“…Furthermore, we aimed to complement previous research by analyzing left‐minus‐right difference ERPs . These have proven highly sensitive to left‐lateralized word processing (Koppehele‐Gossel et al, 2016, 2018a, 2018b; Koppehele‐Gossel, Khosrowtaj, et al, 2019; Koppehele‐Gossel, Schnuerch, et al, 2019; Seib‐Pfeifer et al, 2019), because bilateral activity less directly related to language processing is removed. In particular, lexical asymmetry (left‐lateralized N2) is a negative peak at around 250 ms in left‐minus‐right occipito‐temporal ERPs.…”

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Attention to affect 2.0: Multiple effects of emotion and attention on event‐related potentials of visual word processing in a valence‐detection task

2022

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Here we continue recent work on the specific mental processes engaged in a valence-detection task. Fifty-seven participants responded to one predefined target level of valence (negative, neutral, or positive), and ignored the remaining two levels. This enables more precise fine-tuning of neuronal pathways, compared to valence categorization where attention is divided between different levels of valence. Our group recently used valence detection with emotional words. Posterior P1 and N170 effects in the event-related potential (ERP) supported the idea of valent word forms that can be tuned by selective attention to valence. Here we report findings on three distinct posterior N2 components, P300, N400, and the late positive potential (LPP). Target but not nontarget words showed an arousal effect (emotional > neutral) on left-side early posterior negativity (180-280 ms). In contrast, an arousal effect on a sharp N2 deflection in left-minus-right difference ERPs (230-270 ms), suggesting facilitation of lexical access for emotional words, was independent of target status. This also applied to increased medial parietooccipital N2 (260-300 ms) specific to negative words, indicating attentional capture. Medial-central N400 was specifically enhanced for negative nontarget words, further supporting attentional capture. The typical LPP arousal effect was observed, being stronger and more left-lateralized in target words. An exploratory finding concerned a broad component-overarching ERP valence effect (250-650 ms). Independent of target status, ERPs were more positive for positive than negative words. Combined with our previous results, data suggest multiple loci of emotion-attention interactions in valence detection.

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“…Furthermore, studies have shown that a decrease of P3 amplitudes indicated an involvement of control processing. 51,56 Thus, we thought that inhibitory control was not only needed in solving the incongruent items, but also needed in solving the following congruent items to overcome the interference from previous incongruent items.…”

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<p>Inhibiting the Whole Number Bias in a Fraction Comparison Task: An Event-Related Potential Study</p>

Fu¹,

Li²,

Ping³

et al. 2020

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Introduction: People often use heuristics derived from natural number tasks to solve fraction comparison tasks. For instance, one may falsely consider a fraction with a larger natural number to be the larger in magnitude, as in the case of 1/5 vs 1/4. We hypothesized that inhibitory control was needed to overcome this type of bias. Methods: To test the hypothesis, Event-related potentials (ERP) were collected when participants were conducting fraction comparison tasks that designed with the negative priming paradigm. Twenty-eight adult participants performed three types of fraction comparison tasks: congruent items, incongruent items and neutral items. Results: We found a negative priming effect in terms of response time. Consistently, ERP results demonstrated larger N1 and N2 amplitudes and a smaller P3 amplitude in the test trial than in the control trial. Conclusion: These findings indicated that adults still need to inhibit the "larger natural number-larger fraction" misleading strategy when solving fraction comparison tasks with common components.

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On ignoring words—exploring the neural signature of inhibition of affective words using ERPs

Cited by 8 publications

References 90 publications

Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Modulate Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Negative Priming From Single Words

Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Modulate Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Negative Priming From Single Words

Attention to affect 2.0: Multiple effects of emotion and attention on event‐related potentials of visual word processing in a valence‐detection task

<p>Inhibiting the Whole Number Bias in a Fraction Comparison Task: An Event-Related Potential Study</p>

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