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Midfrontal Theta and Posterior Parietal Alpha Band Oscillations Support Conflict Resolution in a Masked Affective Priming Task

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Title
Midfrontal Theta and Posterior Parietal Alpha Band Oscillations Support Conflict Resolution in a Masked Affective Priming Task
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, May 2018
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00175
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Jun Jiang, Kira Bailey, Xiao Xiao

Abstract

Past attempts to characterize the neural mechanisms of affective priming have conceptualized it in terms of classic cognitive conflict, but have not examined the neural oscillatory mechanisms of subliminal affective priming. Using behavioral and electroencephalogram (EEG) time frequency (TF) analysis, the current study examines the oscillatory dynamics of unconsciously triggered conflict in an emotional facial expressions version of the masked affective priming task. The results demonstrate that the power dynamics of conflict are characterized by increased midfrontal theta activity and suppressed parieto-occipital alpha activity. Across-subject and within-trial correlation analyses further confirmed this pattern. Phase synchrony and Granger causality analyses (GCAs) revealed that the fronto-parietal network was involved in unconscious conflict detection and resolution. Our findings support a response conflict account of affective priming, and reveal the role of the fronto-parietal network in unconscious conflict control.

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Unknown 39 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 26%
Researcher 5 13%
Student > Master 5 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 9 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 26%
Neuroscience 7 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 8%
Engineering 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 10 26%
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