Mid-Frontal Theta Modulates Response Inhibition and Decision Making Processes in Emotional Contexts. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Inhibitory control is an integral part of executive functions. In this study, we report event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) results from 15 healthy adults performing an emotional stop-signal task with the use of happy, disgusted, and neutral emotional faces. Our ERSP results at the group level suggest that changes in low frequency oscillatory power for emotional and neutral conditions start at as early as 200 ms after stimulus onset and 300 ms before button press for successful go trials. To quantify the dynamics of trial-by-trial theta power, we applied the hierarchical drift diffusion model to single-trial ERSP at the mid-frontal electrode site for the go condition. Hierarchical drift diffusion modeling (HDDM) assigned higher frontal low-frequency oscillatory power for evidence accumulation in emotional contexts as compared to a neutral setting. Our results provide new evidence for dynamic modulation of sensory processing of go stimuli in inhibition and extend our knowledge for processing of response inhibition in emotional contexts.

publication date

  • October 11, 2019

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC6826545

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85049148759

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.3758/s13428-018-1067-y

PubMed ID

  • 31614456

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 9

issue

  • 10