The Influence of Negative Emotion on Cognitive and Emotional Control Remains Intact in Aging

Zinchenko, Artyom; Obermeier, Christian; Kanske, Philipp; Schröger, Erich; Villringer, Arno; Kotz, Sonja A.

doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00349

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“…In line with our recent findings, we expected that incongruent cognitive and emotional tasks would result in a bigger N100 amplitude increase for negative than for neutral targets in older adults with NH ( 19 ). Additionally, we predicted that incongruent relative to congruent trials will result in a smaller P200 response in the two types of conflict ( 18 , 28 ).…”

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“…In more detail, the conflict effect (i.e., RT difference between incongruent and congruent conditions) was smaller in the negative emotion condition relative to the neutral condition. Similarly, negative emotion was also shown to modulate conflicts that arise between opposing non-emotional stimulus dimensions [i.e., cognitive conflicts; ( 19 ); see also ( 20 , 21 ), for similar findings]. Besides behavioral modulation of cognitive and emotional conflicts, negative emotions also resulted in conflict-specific ERP responses ( 18 , 19 ).…”

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“…As a result, negative emotions improved emotional conflict processing in younger ( 18 ) and older adults ( 19 ). In more detail, the conflict effect (i.e., RT difference between incongruent and congruent conditions) was smaller in the negative emotion condition relative to the neutral condition.…”

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“…For instance, Zinchenko et al ( 19 ) ran EEG experiments where they presented participants (groups of older and younger adults) with multisensory dynamic stimuli: short video clips of actors facially expressing and vocalizing negative or neutral emotions. The incongruence was created between non-emotional vowel category (cognitive task of Experiment 1) and emotional valence of visual and audio dimensions (emotional task of Experiment 2).…”

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“…Based on previous findings that HL results in a reduction of gray matter volume in frontal cortex and particularly control-specific anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), we expected that the HL group would result in particularly hindered performance in both cognitive conflict task ( 39 , 40 ) and in the emotional conflict task ( 19 ). Additionally, it was expected that negative targets would improve performance in both cognitive and emotional tasks in the NH group ( 19 ). On the other hand, as several previous studies indicated reduced capabilities to process emotional information related to moderate HL [e.g., ( 3 )], we hypothesized that emotional targets would have no influence on both types of conflict in HL older adults.…”

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Modulation of Cognitive and Emotional Control in Age-Related Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss

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Progressive hearing loss is a common phenomenon in healthy aging and may affect the perception of emotions expressed in speech. Elderly with mild to moderate hearing loss often rate emotional expressions as less emotional and display reduced activity in emotion-sensitive brain areas (e.g., amygdala). However, it is not clear how hearing loss affects cognitive and emotional control mechanisms engaged in multimodal speech processing. In previous work we showed that negative, task-relevant and -irrelevant emotion modulates the two types of control in younger and older adults without hearing loss. To further explore how reduced hearing capacity affects emotional and cognitive control, we tested whether moderate hearing loss (>30 dB) at frequencies relevant for speech impacts cognitive and emotional control. We tested two groups of older adults with hearing loss (HL; N = 21; mean age = 70.5) and without hearing loss (NH; N = 21; mean age = 68.4). In two EEG experiments participants observed multimodal video clips and either categorized pronounced vowels (cognitive conflict) or their emotions (emotional conflict). Importantly, the facial expressions were either matched or mismatched with the corresponding vocalizations. In both conflict tasks, we found that negative stimuli modulated behavioral conflict processing in the NH but not the HL group, while the HL group performed at chance level in the emotional conflict task. Further, we found that the amplitude difference between congruent and incongruent stimuli was larger in negative relative to neutral N100 responses across tasks and groups. Lastly, in the emotional conflict task, neutral stimuli elicited a smaller N200 response than emotional stimuli primarily in the HL group. Consequently, age-related hearing loss not only affects the processing of emotional acoustic cues but also alters the behavioral benefits of emotional stimuli on cognitive and emotional control, despite preserved early neural responses. The resulting difficulties in the multimodal integration of incongruent emotional stimuli may lead to problems in processing complex social information (irony, sarcasm) and impact emotion processing in the limbic network. This could be related to social isolation and depression observed in the elderly with age-related hearing loss.

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A touching advantage: cross-modal stop-signals improve reactive response inhibition

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Merz

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The ability to inhibit an already initiated response is crucial for navigating the environment. However, it is unclear which characteristics make stop-signals more likely to be processed efficiently. In three consecutive studies, we demonstrate that stop-signal modality and location are key factors that influence reactive response inhibition. Study 1 shows that tactile stop-signals lead to better performance compared to visual stop-signals in an otherwise visual choice-reaction task. Results of Study 2 reveal that the location of the stop-signal matters. Specifically, if a visual stop-signal is presented at a different location compared to the visual go-signal, then stopping performance is enhanced. Extending these results, study 3 suggests that tactile stop-signals and location-distinct visual stop-signals retain their performance enhancing effect when visual distractors are presented at the location of the go-signal. In sum, these results confirm that stop-signal modality and location influence reactive response inhibition, even in the face of concurrent distractors. Future research may extend and generalize these findings to other cross-modal setups.

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It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults

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Luca

Antonucci³

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Healthy ageing has been associated to a bias toward positive information and greater psychological well-being. However, to what extent this positivity bias also applies to prioritizing positive information under emotional competition is unclear. Old and young adults performed a word-face interference task, in which they responded to the valence of positive and negative target-words while ignoring happy or angry distractor-faces that could be affectively congruent or incongruent. A control condition with scrambled neutral distractor-faces was also used. Findings showed small facilitation effects with faster responses when targets and distractors were affectively congruent and large interference effects with slower responses when targets and distractors were affectively incongruent compared to the control condition. Importantly, whereas for younger adults there was a similar pattern of interference from happy and angry distractor-faces, for older adults there was greater interference from angry distractor-faces. The present findings are discussed in the context of emotional bias literature.

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The Influence of Negative Emotion on Cognitive and Emotional Control Remains Intact in Aging

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Modulation of Cognitive and Emotional Control in Age-Related Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss

Modulation of Cognitive and Emotional Control in Age-Related Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss

A touching advantage: cross-modal stop-signals improve reactive response inhibition

It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults

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