The impact of anxiety-inducing distraction on cognitive performance: a combined brain imaging and personality investigation.

Previous investigations revealed that the impact of task-irrelevant emotional distraction on ongoing goal-oriented cognitive processing is linked to opposite patterns of activation in emotional and perceptual vs. cognitive control/executive brain regions. However, little is known about the role of i...

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Main Authors: Ekaterina Denkova, Gloria Wong, Sanda Dolcos, Keen Sung, Lihong Wang, Nicholas Coupland, Florin Dolcos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2994755?pdf=render