Hemispheric asymmetries in affective and cognitive functions have been extensively
studied. While both cerebral hemispheres contribute to most affective and cognitive …

Most of the previous research in the area of cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience
focused on studying negative emotions and argued that the negative emotional stimuli …

Background Existing literature suggests that age affects recognition of affective facial
expressions. Eye-tracking studies highlighted that age-related differences in recognition of …

Response inhibition is a crucial component of executive control, which refers to our ability to
suppress responses that are no longer needed or inappropriate. The stop-signal task is a …

Cognitive control enables people to adjust their thoughts and actions according to the
current task demands. Response inhibition and response adjustment are two key aspects of …

Mindfulness enhances executive control and regulates emotion, but the role of mindfulness
in response inhibition in emotional contexts remains unclear. The present study used a stop …

Empirical evidence has demonstrated functional (mostly right-biased) brain asymmetry for
emotion perception, whereas recent studies indicate that acute stress may modulate left …

It has been argued that cognitive processes such as attention and memory are influenced by
motivational salience (high or low predictability of an outcome) rather than valance or value …

Objectives Although mindfulness improves executive control and emotional processing, its
impact on conflict resolution—an essential executive function—in emotionally irrelevant …

It has been debated that arousal rather than valence modulates the response-inhibition
process. The processing of irrelevant information of happy and angry faces interacts with …