How Positive Affect Modulates Cognitive Control: Reduced Perseveration at the Cost of Increased Distractibility

Autor/inn/en	Dreisbach, Gesine; Goschke, Thomas
Titel	How Positive Affect Modulates Cognitive Control: Reduced Perseveration at the Cost of Increased Distractibility
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30 (2004) 2, S.343-353 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; Cognitive Processes; Psychological Studies; Brain; Behavior Disorders + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Gehirn
Abstract	A fundamental problem that organisms face in a changing environment is how to regulate dynamically the balance between stable maintenance and flexible switching of goals and cognitive sets. The authors show that positive affect plays an important role in the regulation of this stability-flexibility balance. In a cognitive set-switching paradigm, the induction of mild increases in positive affect, as compared with neutral or negative affect, promoted cognitive flexibility and reduced perseveration, but also incurred a cost in terms of increased distractibility. Rather than influencing set switching in an unspecific way, positive affect thus exerted opposite effects on perseveration and distractibility. Results are consistent with neuropsychological models according to which effects of positive affect on cognitive control are mediated by increased dopamine levels in frontal brain areas. (Author).
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