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Limitations of cognitive control on emotional distraction – Congruency in the Color Stroop task does not modulate the Emotional Stroop effect
Emotional information receives prioritized processing over concurrent cognitive processes. This can lead to distraction if emotional information has...
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The impact of auditory distraction on reading comprehension: An individual differences investigation
Background noise disrupts auditory selective attention and impairs performance on cognitive tasks, but the degree to which it is disruptive depends...
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Effects of distraction, cognitive reappraisal, and acceptance on the urge to self-harm and negative affect in nonsuicidal self-injury
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of various emotion regulation (ER) strategies on emotional distress and the urge to self-harm...
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The metacognition of auditory distraction: Judgments about the effects of deviating and changing auditory distractors on cognitive performance
The duplex-mechanism account of auditory distraction has been extended to predict that people should have metacognitive awareness of the disruptive...
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Rumination in Children with Social Anxiety Disorder: Effects of Cognitive Distraction and Relation to Social Stress Processing
According to cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), both anticipatory processing and post-event processing are core mechanisms in...
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Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means
Stressors (e.g., a dangerous environment) that create a need (e.g., a need for safety) can also elicit negative emotions (e.g., fear, distress, and...
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Monetary incentives have only limited effects on auditory distraction: evidence for the automaticity of cross-modal attention capture
The duplex-mechanism account of auditory distraction postulates that two distinct forms of auditory distraction can be distinguished by whether or...
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Eye behavior predicts susceptibility to visual distraction during internally directed cognition
When we engage in internally directed cognition (e.g., planning or imagination), our eye behavior decouples from external stimuli and couples to...
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The differential impact of face distractors on visual working memory across encoding and delay stages
External distractions often occur when information must be retained in visual working memory (VWM)—a crucial element in cognitive processing and...
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Time to reappraise or distract? temporal and situational context in emotion regulation in daily life
Contextual factors influence how people regulate their everyday emotions. While daily life is rich with situations that evoke emotion regulation, few...
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Auditory distraction in school-age children relative to individual differences in working memory capacity
We examined susceptibility to auditory distraction and its association to working-memory capacity (WMC) in children ( N =125) using a dichotic...
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Is deviance distraction immune to the prior sequential learning of stimuli and responses?
Past studies show that novel, task-irrelevant auditory stimuli, presented in the context of an otherwise repeated standard sound, capture...
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The regulation of target salience on preschool children’s top-down attentional control
Adults excel at exerting top-down control to avoid distractions from salient-but-irrelevant stimuli, allowing them to produce the attentional boost...
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Contralateral delay activity, but not alpha lateralization, indexes prioritization of information for working memory storage
Working memory is inherently limited, which makes it important to select and maintain only task-relevant information and to protect it from...
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Transfer of working memory training to the inhibitory control of auditory distraction
Extended working memory training with the dual n -back task has been shown to improve performance on various untrained cognitive tasks, but previous...
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Trait hedonic capacity correlates with sexual pleasure and motives for sexualized drug use in young adults
Although pleasure is a primary motivator for sexual activity, research into the mechanisms facilitating pleasurable sexual experiences is limited....
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Distraction biases working memory for faces
Working memory persists in the face of distraction, yet not without consequence. Previous research has shown that memory for low-level visual...
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State mindfulness mediates relation between brief mindfulness training and sustained engagement with social stressor across social anxiety levels
ObjectivesOne-in-five people experience anticipatory anxiety that impacts engagement in socially evaluative tasks. Metacognitive strategies have the...
