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Brain and Cognition

Volume 75, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 177-181
Brain and Cognition

Positive affect increases cognitive control in the antisaccade task

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Abstract

To delineate the modulatory effects of induced positive affect on cognitive control, the current study investigated whether positive affect increases the ability to suppress a reflexive saccade in the antisaccade task. Results of the antisaccade task showed that participants made fewer erroneous prosaccades in the condition in which a positive mood was induced compared to the neutral condition (i.e. in which no emotional mood was induced). This improvement of oculomotor inhibition was restricted to saccades with an express latency. These results are in line with the idea that enhanced performance in the positive affect condition could be caused by increased dopaminergic neurotransmission the brain.

Keywords

Positive affect
Antisaccade
Oculomotor inhibition

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