The cognitive consequences of emotion regulation: An ERP investigation

Increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation (ER) strategies modulate encoding of information presented during regulation; however, no studies have assessed the impact of cognitive reappraisal ER strategies on the processing of stimuli presented after the ER period. Participants in the prese...

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Published in:Psychophysiology 2008-05, Vol.45 (3), p.435-444
Main Authors: Deveney, C.M., Pizzagalli, D.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition - physiology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Electroencephalography
Electromyography
Emotion regulation
Emotions
Emotions - physiology
Event-related brain potentials
Event-Related Potentials, P300 - physiology
Evoked Potentials - physiology
Experimental psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Measurement techniques
Photic Stimulation
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Resource allocation
Theory
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Summary:Increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation (ER) strategies modulate encoding of information presented during regulation; however, no studies have assessed the impact of cognitive reappraisal ER strategies on the processing of stimuli presented after the ER period. Participants in the present study regulated emotions to unpleasant pictures and then judged whether a word was negative or neutral. Electromyographic measures (corrugator supercilli) confirmed that individuals increased and decreased negative affect according to ER condition. Event‐related potential analyses revealed smallest N400 amplitudes to negative and neutral words presented after decreasing unpleasant emotions and smallest P300 amplitudes to words presented after increasing unpleasant emotions whereas reaction time data failed to show ER modulations. Results are discussed in the context of the developing ER literature, as well as theories of emotional incongruity (N400) and resource allocation (P300).
ISSN:0048-5772
1469-8986
1540-5958
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00641.x