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The Emotional Content of Faces Interferes with Inhibitory Processing: An Event Related Potential Study

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  • Julieta Ramos-Loyo
  • Andrés González-Garrido
  • Gregorio García-Aguilar
  • Yolanda Río-Portilla

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Emotional stimuli interfere with other kinds of stimuli processing because they capture attentional resources inaccordance with their adaptive importance. This suggests that it would be more difficult to inhibit emotionalfaces than neutral ones or objects. The present study evaluates the effects of facial emotional expressions oninhibitory processing using event-related brain potentials in a Go/NoGo paradigm. Event-related potentials wereobtained in healthy subjects during emotional inhibition tasks involving anger and happiness, compared tonon-emotional tasks based on simple objects and gender. Emotional tasks exhibited poorer performance thannon-emotional ones. P3 latencies were longer during response inhibition to emotional faces than those obtainedwhile inhibiting non-emotional stimuli. This study provides evidence that facial emotional content interfereswith response inhibition since it may elicit additional neural resource demands.

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  • Julieta Ramos-Loyo & Andrés González-Garrido & Gregorio García-Aguilar & Yolanda Río-Portilla, 2013. "The Emotional Content of Faces Interferes with Inhibitory Processing: An Event Related Potential Study," International Journal of Psychological Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 5(2), pages 1-52, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ijpsjl:v:5:y:2013:i:2:p:52
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