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Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent.

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Dillon, DG; LaBar, KS
Published in: Behavioral neuroscience
August 2005

Conscious regulation of negative emotion has been shown to affect human eyeblink startle responses, but whether these results depend on modulation of arousal- or valence-based processes is unknown. The authors presented participants with negative, neutral, and positive pictures and directed them to enhance, maintain, and suppress emotional responses. On emotional picture trials, startle responses decreased as a function of cue in the following order: enhance > maintain > suppress. Analysis of negative and positive picture trials separately revealed similar patterns of startle modulation by emotion regulation. There were no effects of emotion regulation on neutral trials. Results indicate that arousal, not valence, may be critical to startle modulation via conscious emotion regulation.

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Behavioral neuroscience

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1939-0084

ISSN

0735-7044

Publication Date

August 2005

Volume

119

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1118 / 1124

Related Subject Headings

  • Photic Stimulation
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Emotions
  • Electromyography
  • Cues
  • Consciousness
  • Blinking
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
 

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Dillon, D. G., & LaBar, K. S. (2005). Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(4), 1118–1124. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.1118
Dillon, Daniel G., and Kevin S. LaBar. “Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent.Behavioral Neuroscience 119, no. 4 (August 2005): 1118–24. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.1118.
Dillon DG, LaBar KS. Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent. Behavioral neuroscience. 2005 Aug;119(4):1118–24.
Dillon, Daniel G., and Kevin S. LaBar. “Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent.Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 119, no. 4, Aug. 2005, pp. 1118–24. Epmc, doi:10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.1118.
Dillon DG, LaBar KS. Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent. Behavioral neuroscience. 2005 Aug;119(4):1118–1124.

Published In

Behavioral neuroscience

DOI

EISSN

1939-0084

ISSN

0735-7044

Publication Date

August 2005

Volume

119

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1118 / 1124

Related Subject Headings

  • Photic Stimulation
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Emotions
  • Electromyography
  • Cues
  • Consciousness
  • Blinking
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology