Background Previous investigations revealed that the impact of task-irrelevant emotional distraction on ongoing goal-oriented cognitive processing is linked to opposite patterns activation in and perceptual vs. control/executive brain regions. However, little known about role individual variations these responses. The present study investigated effect trait anxiety neural responses mediating transient anxiety-inducing performance, correlates coping with such distraction. We whether activity...

Although available evidence suggests that the emotional valence and recollective properties of autobiographical memories (AMs) may be influenced by personality- sex-related differences, overall these relationships remain poorly understood. The present study investigated issues comparing effect general personality traits (extraversion neuroticism) specific linked to emotion regulation (ER) strategies (reappraisal suppression) on retrieval AMs associated postretrieval states, in men women....

Emotions can have both enhancing and impairing effects on various cognitive processes, from lower (e.g., perceptual) to higher level mnemonic executive) processes. The present article discusses emerging brain imaging evidence linking these opposing of emotion, which points overlapping dissociable neural systems involving bottom-up top-down mechanisms. link between the is also discussed in a clinical context, with focus posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where tend co-occur, are...

Abstract Mind wandering (MW) has become a prominent topic of neuroscientific investigation due to the importance understanding attentional processes in our day‐to‐day experiences. Emerging evidence suggests critical role for three large‐scale brain networks MW: default network (DN), central executive (CEN), and salience (SN). Advances analytical methods neuroimaging data (i.e., dynamic functional connectivity, DFC) demonstrate that interactions between these are not static but dynamically...

Brain activity continuously and spontaneously fluctuates during tasks of sustained attention. This spontaneous reflects the intrinsic dynamics neurocognitive networks, which have been suggested to differentiate moments externally directed task focus from episodes mind wandering. However, contribution specific electrophysiological brain states their millisecond experience wandering is still unclear. In this study, we investigated association between electroencephalogram microstate temporal...

In Conway and Pleydell-Pearce's model (2000), autobiographical memories are viewed as transitory mental representations, more often generated in an effortful way. An important claim of the concerns dynamic process that evolves over time, from left prefrontal areas to posterior regions, retrieve specific memories. The present work aims at investigating, using fMRI, temporal distribution memory construction. addition, a self-paced design was implemented elucidate question timing window...

Abstract Objectives Mindfulness training (MT) guidelines recommend that trainers have familiarity and knowledge of the group as well extensive MT expertise. Herein, a “train-the-trainer” (TTT) dissemination model was investigated for military service members whose access to is threatened by scarcity qualified trainers. Methods US Army Master Resilience Trainer-Performance Experts (PEs), who had with soldiers but no prior experience, participated in an practicum, then delivered 4-week program...

Remembering emotional autobiographical memories (AMs) is important for well-being, and investigation of the role emotion regulation (ER) during AM recollection has relevance understanding mental health issues. Although significant progress been made in brain mechanisms underlying ER AM, less known about recollection. The present study investigated how focusing away (or 'distracting') from content influences subjective re-experiencing emotions associated neural correlates, by manipulating...

Mind wandering (MW) has been recently investigated in many studies. It suggested that, during MW, processing of perceptual stimuli is attenuated favor internal thoughts, a phenomenon referred to as decoupling. Perceptual decoupling ERP studies, which have used relatively simple stimuli, yet it remains unclear if MW can impact the complex with real-world relevance. Here, we on behavioral and neural responses faces. Thirty-six participants completed novel sustained attention response task They...

Laboratory-based episodic memory studies, using micro-events (pictures/words), point to a role of the amygdala (AMY), an emotion-based region, in encoding and retrieval emotionally valenced memories. However, autobiographical (AM) real-life personal events, do not conclusively support AMY's involvement AM recollection. This could be due differences instructions across studies - i.e., whether emotional aspects were explicitly emphasized or not. The present study investigated effect focus on...

Although available evidence points to a role of the inferior frontal cortex (IFC) in both emotion processing and autobiographical memory (AM) recollection, it is unclear what this region emotional AM recollection. The present study investigated whether IFC activity can be influenced by manipulations retrieval focus (emotional vs. non-emotional) influence similar for AMs with positive negative valence. Participants were asked either on (Emotion condition) or non-emotional contextual (Context...

We studied a case of psychogenic amnesia by means functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment involving the retrieval autobiographical memories. The 38-year-old patient was unable to access most her memories from childhood up 16 years age. Compared with forgotten period, evocation normally retrieved elicited increased activity in medial temporal and dorso-lateral frontal regions. Evocation preserved scattered recollections associated bilaterally distributed...