TY  - JOUR
A1  - Czapka, Sophia
A1  - Schwieter, John W.
A1  - Festman, Julia
T1  - The influence of peripheral emotions on inhibitory control among children
T2  - Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics
N2  - In this study, we investigated the cognitive-emotional interplay by measuring the effects of executive competition (Pessoa, 2013), i.e., how inhibitory control is influenced when emotional information is encountered. Sixty-three children (8 to 9 years of age) participated in an inhibition task (central task) accompanied by happy, sad, or neutral emoticons (displayed in the periphery). Typical interference effects were found in the main task for speed and accuracy, but in general, these effects were not additionally modulated by the peripheral emoticons indicating that processing of the main task exhausted the limited capacity such that interference from the task-irrelevant, peripheral information did not show (Pessoa, 2013). Further analyses revealed that the magnitude of interference effects depended on the order of congruency conditions: when incongruent conditions preceded congruent ones, there was greater interference. This effect was smaller in sad conditions, and particularly so at the beginning of the experiment. These findings suggest that the bottom-up perception of task-irrelevant emotional information influenced the top-down process of inhibitory control among children in the sad condition when processing demands were particularly high. We discuss if the salience and valence of the emotional stimuli as well as task demands are the decisive characteristics that modulate the strength of this relation.
KW  - Executive function
KW  - Inhibitory control task
KW  - Cognitive emotional
KW  - regulation
KW  - Primary school children
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62602
SN  - 0001-6918
SN  - 1873-6297
VL  - 223
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -