The Time Course Of Activity Within The Dorsal And Rostral-Ventral Anterior Cingulate Cortex In The Emotional Stroop Task

Feroz, Farah Shahnaz and Leicht, Gregor and Steinmann, Saskia and Andreou, Christina and Mulert, Christoph (2017) The Time Course Of Activity Within The Dorsal And Rostral-Ventral Anterior Cingulate Cortex In The Emotional Stroop Task. Brain Topography, 30 (1). pp. 30-45. ISSN 0896-0267

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Abstract

Growing evidence from neuroimaging studies suggest that emotional and cognitive processes are interrelated. Anatomical key structures in this context are the dorsal and rostral-ventral anterior cingulate cortex (dACC and rvACC). However, up to now, the time course of activations within these regions during emotion-cognition interactions has not been disentangled. In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERP) and standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) region of interest (ROI) source localization analyses to explore the time course of neural activations within the dACC and rvACC using a modified emotional Stroop paradigm. ERP components related to Stroop conflict (N200, N450 and late negativity) were analyzed. The time course of brain activations in the dACC and rvACC was strikingly different with more pronounced initial responses in the rvACC followed by increased dACC activity mainly at the late negativity window. Moreover, emotional valence modulated the earlier N450 stage within the rvACC region with higher neural activations in the positive compared to the negative and neutral conditions. Emotional arousal modulated the late negativity stage; firstly in the significant arousal × congruence ERP effect and then the significant higher current density in the low arousal condition within the dACC. Using sLORETA source localization, substantial differences in the activation time courses in the dACC and rvACC could be found during the emotional Stroop task. We suggest that during late negativity, within the dACC, emotional arousal modulated the processing of response conflict, reflected in the correlation between the ex-Gaussian µ and the current density in the dACC.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Valence, Arousal, Emotion-cognition, Stroop, Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, Rostral-ventral anterior cingulate cortex
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering > Department of Computer Engineering
Depositing User:	Mohd Hannif Jamaludin
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2017 01:32
Last Modified:	20 Jul 2021 22:23
URI:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/18389
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