1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Cognitive control modulates preferential sensory processing of affective stimuli" ?
Here, the authors use functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) to investigate whether preferential processing of an affective face distractor is suppressed when an affective distractor has previously elicited a response conflict in a wordface Stroop task.. The authors analyzed this for three consecutive stages in the ventral stream of visual processing for which preferential processing of affective stimuli has previously been demonstrated: the striate area ( BA 17 ), category-unspecific extrastriate areas ( BA 18/19 ), and the fusiform face area ( FFA ).
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2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Cognitive control modulates preferential sensory processing of affective stimuli" ?
Further research is required to investigate whether similar adjustments of emotional processing take place when cognitive control is recruited by response conflict associated with errors ( Yeung, Botvinick, & Cohen, 2004 ), or by the conscious detection of errors ( Maier, Steinhauser, & Hübner, 2008 ; Steinhauser & Yeung, 2010 ).. Moreover, direct modulation of control using non-invasive brain stimulation during fMRI ( Meinzer et al., 2014 ) could shed further light on the relationship between cognitive control and emotional processing.. Enhanced extrastriate visual response to bandpass spatial frequency filtered fearful faces: time course and topographic evoked-potentials mapping.
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