Sex differences in how erotic and painful stimuli impair inhibitory control

Jiaxin Yu; Lan Hung; Philip Tseng; Ovid J.L. Tzeng; Neil G. Muggleton; Chi Hung Juan

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007

Sex differences in how erotic and painful stimuli impair inhibitory control

Jiaxin Yu, Lan Hung, Philip Tseng, Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Neil G. Muggleton, Chi Hung Juan

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

18 Scopus citations

Abstract

Witnessing emotional events such as arousal or pain may impair ongoing cognitive processes such as inhibitory control. We found that this may be true only half of the time. Erotic images and painful video clips were shown to men and women shortly before a stop signal task, which measures cognitive inhibitory control. These stimuli impaired inhibitory control only in men and not in women, suggesting that emotional stimuli may be processed with different weights depending on gender.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-255
Number of pages	5
Journal	Cognition
Volume	124
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007
State	Published - Aug 2012

Keywords

Emotion
Response inhibition
Sex difference

Access to Document

10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007

Cite this

@article{47e3127defad4882aefcfe3669786c3e,

title = "Sex differences in how erotic and painful stimuli impair inhibitory control",

abstract = "Witnessing emotional events such as arousal or pain may impair ongoing cognitive processes such as inhibitory control. We found that this may be true only half of the time. Erotic images and painful video clips were shown to men and women shortly before a stop signal task, which measures cognitive inhibitory control. These stimuli impaired inhibitory control only in men and not in women, suggesting that emotional stimuli may be processed with different weights depending on gender.",

keywords = "Emotion, Response inhibition, Sex difference",

author = "Jiaxin Yu and Lan Hung and Philip Tseng and Tzeng, {Ovid J.L.} and Muggleton, {Neil G.} and Juan, {Chi Hung}",

note = "Funding Information: This work was sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Numbers: 99-2410-H-008-022-MY3, 100-2410-H-008-074-MY3, 99-2911-I-008-025, 100-2511-S-008-009, 98-2410-H-008-010-MY3, 98-2517-S-004-001-MY3, and 97-2511-S-008-008-MY5 ).",

year = "2012",

month = aug,

doi = "10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007",

language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",

volume = "124",

pages = "251--255",

journal = "Cognition",

issn = "0010-0277",

number = "2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Sex differences in how erotic and painful stimuli impair inhibitory control

AU - Yu, Jiaxin

AU - Hung, Lan

AU - Tseng, Philip

AU - Tzeng, Ovid J.L.

AU - Muggleton, Neil G.

AU - Juan, Chi Hung

N1 - Funding Information: This work was sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan (Grant Numbers: 99-2410-H-008-022-MY3, 100-2410-H-008-074-MY3, 99-2911-I-008-025, 100-2511-S-008-009, 98-2410-H-008-010-MY3, 98-2517-S-004-001-MY3, and 97-2511-S-008-008-MY5 ).

PY - 2012/8

Y1 - 2012/8

N2 - Witnessing emotional events such as arousal or pain may impair ongoing cognitive processes such as inhibitory control. We found that this may be true only half of the time. Erotic images and painful video clips were shown to men and women shortly before a stop signal task, which measures cognitive inhibitory control. These stimuli impaired inhibitory control only in men and not in women, suggesting that emotional stimuli may be processed with different weights depending on gender.

AB - Witnessing emotional events such as arousal or pain may impair ongoing cognitive processes such as inhibitory control. We found that this may be true only half of the time. Erotic images and painful video clips were shown to men and women shortly before a stop signal task, which measures cognitive inhibitory control. These stimuli impaired inhibitory control only in men and not in women, suggesting that emotional stimuli may be processed with different weights depending on gender.

KW - Emotion

KW - Response inhibition

KW - Sex difference

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862664868&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007

DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.007

M3 - 期刊論文

C2 - 22658947

AN - SCOPUS:84862664868

SN - 0010-0277

VL - 124

SP - 251

EP - 255

JO - Cognition

JF - Cognition

IS - 2

ER -

Sex differences in how erotic and painful stimuli impair inhibitory control

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this