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Brain Mechanisms of Interaction between Emotion and Cognition

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2023) | Viewed by 5760

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xuebing Li

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1. Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Interests: emotion-cognition interaction; affective disorder; anxiety; emotion regulation; cognitive training; EEG; functional MRI
Dr. Ya Wang

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1. Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Interests: neural mechanisms of prospective memory; cognitive neural mechanisms of schizophrenia; early identification and intervention of mental illness; neuropsychological study of subclinical psychiatric symptoms
Dr. Dongni Pan

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School of Psychology, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing100083, China
Interests: emotion memory updating; memory plasticity; false memory; modification of emotion memory and underlying neural mechanism (both episodic memory and fear conditioning); anxiety regulation; anxiety related disorders; emotion regulation and targeted cognitive training

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

The current Special Issue will focus on the brain mechanisms of interaction between emotion and cognition, including how emotion functionally affects cognitive processes (e.g., perception, attention, memory, decision making, learning, cognitive control) in the neural aspect, and how cognitive manipulations (e.g., training, intervention) induce neural alterations in emotion and emotion regulation. We also welcome clinical or trial studies involving the interaction between emotion and cognition elements, as well as review articles or meta-analyses that provide an integrative perspective on emotion and cognition at the brain level.

Dr. Xuebing Li
Dr. Ya Wang
Dr. Dongni Pan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • emotion–cognition interaction
  • affective disorder
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • emotion regulation
  • emotional
  • cognitive training
  • emotional memory
  • EEG
  • functional MRI

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Effects of a Smartphone-Based, Multisession Interpretation-Bias Modification for Anxiety: Positive Intervention Effects and Low Attrition
by Delhii Hoid, Dong-Ni Pan, Chun Liao and Xuebing Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2270; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032270 - 27 Jan 2023
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While interpretation-bias modification (IBM) is an effective intervention for treating anxiety, it is not broadly used in clinical or daily practice. To this end, this study developed and tested a smartphone-based IBM application. We adopted the ambiguous situation paradigm as an intervention task [...] Read more.
While interpretation-bias modification (IBM) is an effective intervention for treating anxiety, it is not broadly used in clinical or daily practice. To this end, this study developed and tested a smartphone-based IBM application. We adopted the ambiguous situation paradigm as an intervention task in conjunction with robust training materials that broadly covered situations encountered in daily life. We recruited participants with high-trait anxiety and divided them into three groups: (1) positive training; (2) 50% positive–50% negative training; and (3) no-training control. The first two groups completed 28 days of smartphone-based training (IBM in positive cases), and all groups completed six rounds of assessments. The smartphone-based IBM training changed positive and negative endorsements and more specific measures of interpretation bias, thus reducing anxiety. The results also showed that changes in the number of negative interpretations played a mediating role in anxiety reduction. It is notable that the attrition rate was extremely low across the experiment. Our follow-up showed that positive gains persisted throughout the intervening period. Smartphone-based IBM can help individuals with anxiety shift negative biases, broaden their thoughts, enhance their information processing, and effectively target the clinical features of anxiety. Full article
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Distinct Effects of Anxiety and Depression on Updating Emotional Information in Working Memory
by Yuting Zhang, Teresa Boemo, Zhiling Qiao, Yafei Tan and Xu Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 544; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010544 - 29 Dec 2022
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Anxiety and depression have been shown to negatively influence the processing of emotional information in working memory. However, most studies have examined anxiety-related or depression-related working memory deficits independently, without considering their high co-morbidity. We tested the effects of emotional valence on working [...] Read more.
Anxiety and depression have been shown to negatively influence the processing of emotional information in working memory. However, most studies have examined anxiety-related or depression-related working memory deficits independently, without considering their high co-morbidity. We tested the effects of emotional valence on working memory performance among healthy young adults with varying levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Ninety young adults aged between 18–24 (51 female) completed an emotional 2-back task in which positive, negative, and neutral images were presented. Multi-level modeling was used to examine anxiety and depressive symptoms as predictors of response accuracy and latency across the three emotional valence conditions. The results showed that participants responded to negative images with the highest accuracy and to positive images with the lowest accuracy. Both negative and positive images elicited slower responses than neutral images. Importantly, we found that more severe anxiety symptoms predicted a smaller difference in response accuracy between negative and neutral stimuli, whereas more severe depressive symptoms predicted a larger updating reaction time difference between positive and neutral stimuli. These findings demonstrated the uniquely anxiety-related deficits in processing negative contents and the uniquely depression-related deficits in updating positive contents in working memory, thus highlighting the necessity of novel cognitive bias modification interventions targeting the anxiety-specific and depression-specific deficits in working memory. Full article
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Reward Uncertainty and Expected Value Enhance Generalization of Episodic Memory
by Yang Yue, Yingjie Jiang, Fan Zhou, Yuantao Jiang, Yiting Long and Kaiyu Wang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(21), 14389; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114389 - 3 Nov 2022
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Previous research has revealed some mechanisms underlying the generalization of reward expectation of generalization stimuli, but little is known about the generalization of episodic memory for rewarding events, its consolidation, and how reward components such as expected value and reward uncertainty affect it. [...] Read more.
Previous research has revealed some mechanisms underlying the generalization of reward expectation of generalization stimuli, but little is known about the generalization of episodic memory for rewarding events, its consolidation, and how reward components such as expected value and reward uncertainty affect it. Participants underwent a Pavlovian reward-conditioning task to test whether reward conditioning would enhance episodic memory generalization and which reward components would directly affect it. Counterbalanced across participants, one semantic category was paired with a reward, while the other was never paired. Following a delay of either 5 min or 24 h, participants took a memory test consisting of old, highly similar, and new items. We found that participants were more likely to falsely recognize lure items as old in the reward-paired category after 5 min and 24 h delays. These results indicate that reward conditioning enhanced the generalization of episodic memory, but this effect was not necessarily dependent on consolidation. The composite score and raw data of generalization further showed that the uncertainty and expected value enhanced generalization. Together, these findings revealed an effect of reward conditioning on episodic memory generalization and supported the enhancement effects of expected value and uncertainty. Full article
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