Goal pursuit despite emotional distraction: Neural-network mechanisms of emotional interference inhibition and their role for resilience
(C04)
Subject Area
Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
Term
from 2016 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 264810226
Emotional interference inhibition (EII), i.e., inhibition of salient emotional stimuli to pursue goal-directed behavior despite emotional distraction, is considered a general resilience mechanism. In the first funding period, we have identified a brain network with specific spectral signatures common to various types of EII and correlating with proxy measures of resilience. Using information theoretic, pharmacological and neuromodulatory approaches, we now aim to gain mechanistic and causal understanding of the function of this network and its role as a resilience mechanism.
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