Effects of contextualized emotional conflict control on domain-general conflict control: fMRI evidence of neural network reconfiguration

Abstract Domain-general conflict control refers to the cognitive process in which individuals suppress task-irrelevant information and extract task-relevant information. It supports both effective implementation of cognitive conflict control and emotional conflict control. The present study employed...

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Published in:Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2024-01, Vol.19 (1)
Main Authors: Guo, Tingting, Wang, Xiyuan, Wu, Junjie, Schwieter, W. John, Liu, Huanhuan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Brain - diagnostic imaging
Brain Mapping
Cognition
Emotions
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Original Research – Neuroscience
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Summary:Abstract Domain-general conflict control refers to the cognitive process in which individuals suppress task-irrelevant information and extract task-relevant information. It supports both effective implementation of cognitive conflict control and emotional conflict control. The present study employed functional magnetic resonance imaging and adopted an emotional valence conflict task and the arrow version of the flanker task to induce contextualized emotional conflicts and cognitive conflicts, respectively. The results from the conjunction analysis showed that the multitasking-related activity in the pre-supplementary motor area, bilateral dorsal premotor cortices, the left posterior intraparietal sulcus (IPS), the left anterior IPS and the right inferior occipital gyrus represents common subprocesses for emotional and cognitive conflict control, either in parallel or in close succession. These brain regions were used as nodes in the domain-general conflict control network. The results from the analyses on the brain network connectivity patterns revealed that emotional conflict control reconfigures the domain-general conflict control network in a connective way as evidenced by different communication and stronger connectivity among the domain-general conflict control network. Together, these findings offer the first empirical-based elaboration on the brain network underpinning emotional conflict control and how it reconfigures the domain-general conflict control network in interactive ways.
ISSN:1749-5016
1749-5024
DOI:10.1093/scan/nsae001