affect cognition

Affect and cognition at the construct level: the influence of emotion, mood, and affective state on attention, perception, memory, and judgment — mood-congruent processing, affect-as-information, emotional attentional capture, and affect-driven narrowing or broadening of attention. The foundational emotion-cognition construct. Unlike stress_arousal_performance, which concerns physiological arousal level and the Yerkes-Dodson performance curve, this concerns the valenced emotional influence on cognitive processing; unlike affect_mood, which is mood as a state during driving in applied studies, this stays at the basic cognitive-psychology level of how emotion shapes cognition.

98 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

1. Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection · 2006 · Rowe, Gillian et al. · archived
2. The emotional side of cognitive distraction: Implications for road safety ↗ · 2013 · Chan, Michelle et al. · indexed
3. Affective modulation of memory-based guidance in visual search: Dissociative role of positive and negative emotions. ↗ · 2020 · Zinchenko, Artyom et al. · indexed
4. Towards affect-integrated driving behaviour research ↗ · 2015 · Jeon, Myounghoon · indexed
5. Emotional Valence and Arousal Interact in Attentional Control ↗ · 2008 · Jefferies, Lisa N. et al. · indexed
6. The effect of divided attention on emotion-induced memory narrowing ↗ · 2013 · Mickley Steinmetz, Katherine R. et al. · indexed
7. In the Mood for Adaptation ↗ · 2010 · van Steenbergen, Henk et al. · indexed
8. Affective state and event-based prospective memory ↗ · 2011 · Rummel, Jan et al. · indexed
9. Recognition memory for valenced and arousing materials under conditions of divided attention ↗ · 2008 · Clark-Foos, Arlo et al. · indexed
10. The influence of affective state on exogenous attention to emotional distractors: behavioral and electrophysiological correlates · 2017 · Carboni, Alejandra et al. · archived
11. Anger Effects on Driver Situation Awareness and Driving Performance ↗ · 2014 · Jeon, Myounghoon et al. · indexed
12. Affective Biases in Information Search during Tactical Decision-Making ↗ · 2010 · Kustabayeva, Almira et al. · indexed
13. Handbook of cognition and emotion ↗ · 1999 · Dalgleish, Tim et al. · indexed
14. The interference of negative emotional stimuli on semantic vigilance performance in a dual-task setting ↗ · 2023 · Zsidó, András N. et al. · indexed
15. The effect of fear and anger on selective attention. ↗ · 2011 · Finucane, Anne · indexed
16. An angry driver is not the same as a fearful driver ↗ · 2011 · Jeon, Myounghoon et al. · indexed
17. Emotional content overrides spatial attention ↗ · 2021 · Bekhtereva, Valeria et al. · indexed
18. Perception and information processing ↗ · 1999 · Gellatly, Angus · indexed
19. Task relevance modulates processing of distracting emotional stimuli ↗ · 2011 · Lichtenstein-Vidne, Limor et al. · indexed
20. The effect of emotional arousal on visual attentional performance: a systematic review ↗ · 2023 · Zsidó, Andras N. · indexed
21. Explicit attention interferes with selective emotion processing in human extrastriate cortex · 2007 · Schupp, Harald T. et al. · archived
22. Distracted by pleasure: Effects of positive versus negative valence on emotional capture under load. · 2015 · Gupta, Rashmi et al. · archived
23. Affective Working Memory: An Integrative Psychological Construct ↗ · 2019 · Mikels, Joseph A. et al. · indexed
24. Verbal makes it positive, spatial makes it negative: Working memory biases judgments, attention, and moods. ↗ · 2014 · Storbeck, Justin et al. · indexed
25. Emotional Stimuli, Divided Attention, and Memory. ↗ · 2005 · Kern, Rosalie P. et al. · indexed
26. Feature-based inhibition underlies the affective consequences of attention ↗ · 2008 · Goolsby, Brian A. et al. · indexed
27. Time course of affective bias in visual attention: Convergent evidence from steady-state visual evoked potentials and behavioral data ↗ · 2010 · Attar, Catherine Hindi et al. · indexed
28. How fleeting emotions affect hazard perception and steering while driving: The impact of image arousal and valence ↗ · 2012 · Trick, Lana M. et al. · indexed
29. Cognition and Depression: Current Status and Future Directions ↗ · 2010 · Gotlib, Ian H. et al. · indexed
30. Integration of Emotion and Cognitive Control ↗ · 2004 · Gray, Jeremy R. · indexed
31. How Emotions Influence Cognitive Control: A Within-Subject Investigation ↗ · 2026 · Feutren, Tristan et al. · indexed
32. Emotional foundations of cognitive control ↗ · 2015 · Inzlicht, Michael et al. · indexed
33. Emotions and personality traits as high-level factors in visual attention: a review ↗ · 2012 · Kaspar, Kai et al. · indexed
34. Cognitive and Neural Aspects of Information Processing in Major Depressive Disorder: An Integrative Perspective · 2012 · Lara C. Foland‐Ross et al. · archived
35. Characterizing the effects of emotional distraction on sustained attention and subsequent memory: A novel emotional gradual onset continuous performance task ↗ · 2025 · Esterman, Michael et al. · indexed
36. Low Arousing Positive Affect Broadens Visual Attention and Alters the Thought-Action Repertoire While Broadened Visual Attention Does Not ↗ · 2016 · Jäger, Daniel T. et al. · indexed
37. The influence of emotional scenes and attentional bias on visual working memory: Insights from a 3-back task ↗ · 2026 · Alotaibi, Albandri S. · indexed
38. Emotional Facial Processing: Does Cognitive Load Make a Difference? ↗ · 2018 · Ong, Elsie et al. · indexed
39. Valence-specific regulation effects in a working memory task with emotional context ↗ · 2007 · Erk, Susanne et al. · indexed
40. The impact of recent and concurrent affective context on cognitive control: An ERP study of performance monitoring ↗ · 2019 · Clayson, Peter E. et al. · indexed
41. Emotional Modulation of Conflict Processing in the Affective Domain: Evidence from Event-related Potentials and Event-related Spectral Perturbation Analysis ↗ · 2016 · Ma, Jianling et al. · indexed
42. Happiness increases verbal and spatial working memory capacity where sadness does not: Emotion, working memory and executive control ↗ · 2015 · Storbeck, Justin et al. · indexed
43. Emotional stimuli capture spatial attention but do not modulate spatial memory ↗ · 2012 · Bannerman, Rachel L. et al. · indexed
44. Emotion–Cognition Interactions in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Increased Early Attention Capture and Weakened Attentional Control in Emotional Contexts ↗ · 2020 · Karalunas, Sarah L. et al. · indexed
45. Emotional Overshadowing: Pleasant and Unpleasant Cues Overshadow Neutral Cues in Human Associative Learning · 2024 · Zhu, Jianming et al. · archived
46. Brain systems underlying attentional control and emotional distraction during working memory encoding ↗ · 2014 · Ziaei, Maryam et al. · indexed
47. Selective Attention ↗ · 1986 · Johnston, W A et al. · indexed
48. Emotion-Induced Blindness Is Impervious to Working Memory Load ↗ · 2023 · Edwards, Mark et al. · indexed
49. Selective attention to real-world objects drives their emotional appraisal ↗ · 2020 · Wispinski, Nathan J. et al. · indexed
50. Is the processing of affective prosody influenced by spatial attention? an ERP study ↗ · 2013 · Gädeke, Julia C et al. · indexed
51. Divided attention at encoding or retrieval interferes with emotionally enhanced memory for words ↗ · 2021 · Yeung, Ryan C. et al. · indexed
52. The Impact of Attentional Resources on Emotional Expressions Revealed by Event‐Related Potentials ↗ · 2025 · Yang, Lan et al. · indexed
53. Emotional working memory load selectively increases negativity bias ↗ · 2020 · Harp, Nicholas et al. · indexed
54. Emotional Well-Being, Cognitive Load and Academic Attainment ↗ · 2020 · Atiomo, William · indexed
55. Dispersing attentional resources reduces negative emotions ↗ · 2023 · Izaki, Tsubasa et al. · indexed
56. Positive emotion modulates cognitive control: An event‐related potentials study ↗ · 2013 · Xue, Song et al. · indexed
57. Attentional control of the processing of neutral and emotional stimuli ↗ · 2002 · Pessoa, Luiz et al. · indexed
58. Attentional control of emotional distraction in rapid serial visual presentation. ↗ · 2009 · Peers, Polly V. et al. · indexed
59. How working memory load influences emotional associative memory: Immediate and delayed effects ↗ · 2026 · Söylemez, Sinem et al. · indexed
60. The Pale Shades of Emotion: A Signal Detection Theory Analysis of the Emotional Stroop Task ↗ · 2012 · Ben-David, Boaz M. et al. · indexed
61. The Emotional Stroop Effect Is Modulated by the Biological Salience and Motivational Intensity Inherent in Stimuli ↗ · 2020 · Quan, Sixiang et al. · indexed
62. Unintended Emotions in the Laboratory: Emotions Incidentally Induced by a Standard Visual Working Memory Task Relate to Task Performance ↗ · 2022 · Laybourn, Sara et al. · indexed
63. Emotional Valence in the Eye Region Modulates the Attentional Blink in a Task-Dependent Manner: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials ↗ · 2022 · Li, Shuaixia et al. · indexed
64. Effect of Emotion States on the Updating Function of Working Memory ↗ · 2018 · Liu, Xiaoya et al. · indexed
65. Positive Emotion Facilitates Cognitive Flexibility: An fMRI Study · 2017 · Wang, Yanmei et al. · archived
66. Emotion regulates attention: The relation between facial configurations, facial emotion, and visual attention ↗ · 2005 · Lundqvist, Daniel et al. · indexed
67. Attentional Load Effects on Emotional Content in Face Working Memory ↗ · 2021 · Valenti, Lívia et al. · indexed
68. Working Memory Load Attenuates Emotional Enhancement in Recognition Memory ↗ · 2013 · Miendlarzewska, Ewa A. et al. · indexed
69. Is the emotional Stroop task a special case of mood induction? Evidence from sustained effects of attention under emotion ↗ · 2013 · Ben-Haim, Moshe Shay et al. · indexed
70. Avoiding Interference: Adult Attachment and Emotional Processing Biases ↗ · 2007 · Edelstein, Robin S. et al. · indexed
71. The Effect of the Task-unrelated Negative Emotion on the Visual and Spatial Working Memory Task ↗ · 2019 · Lee, Seonkyoung et al. · indexed
72. A naturalistic visual scanning approach to assess selective attention in major depressive disorder ↗ · 2003 · Eizenman, Moshe et al. · indexed
73. The effect of presentation time and working memory load on emotion recognition. ↗ · 2017 · A, Tsouli et al. · indexed
74. Electrocortical consequences of image processing: The influence of working memory load and worry ↗ · 2017 · White, Evan J. et al. · indexed
75. Effects of valence and divided attention on cognitive reappraisal processes ↗ · 2014 · Morris, John A. et al. · indexed
76. Task-irrelevant odours affect both response inhibition and response readiness in fast-paced Go/No-Go task: the case of valence ↗ · 2019 · Albayay, Javier et al. · indexed
77. Attentional control in depression: A translational affective neuroscience approach ↗ · 2010 · De Raedt, Rudi et al. · indexed
78. Processing of Emotional Expressions in Working Memory: Insights from a Modified Span Task ↗ · 2024 · khodadadifar, Tina et al. · indexed
79. Conceptual metaphors influence memory automatically: Evidence from a divided attention false memory task ↗ · 2022 · Reid, J. Nick et al. · indexed
80. The Effect of Aroma-induced Positive Emotions on Memory Span: Moderating Effects of Task Difficulty ↗ · 2025 · Ma, Yuanguang · indexed
81. Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli · 2015 · Vetter, Nora C. et al. · archived
82. Processing of Emotional Expressions in Working Memory: Insights from a Modified Span Task ↗ · 2023 · khodadadifar, Tina et al. · indexed
83. Exploring the role of working memory and attention in emotion recognition among adults with ADHD, a dual-task study. ↗ · 2022 · Holroyd, Alex et al. · indexed
84. Positive emotion up‐regulation is resistant to working memory load: An electrocortical investigation of reappraisal and savoring ↗ · 2023 · Cheng, Yuhan et al. · indexed
85. Degree of abstraction rather than ambiguity is crucial for driving mentalizing involvement <i>commentary on “A-EM: a neurocognitive model for understanding mixed and ambiguous emotions and morality”</i> ↗ · 2023 · Baetens, Kris et al. · indexed
86. How Emotions Shape Moral Behavior: Some Answers (and Questions) for the Field of Moral Psychology ↗ · 2015 · Teper, Rimma et al. · indexed
87. Cognitive framing modulates emotional processing through dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex networks: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study ↗ · 2020 · Kirk, Ulrich et al. · indexed
88. A systematic review of emotional design research in multimedia learning ↗ · 2024 · Mutlu-Bayraktar, Duygu · indexed
89. Meaning is Not a Reflex: Context Dependence of Spatial Congruity Effects ↗ · 2015 · Casasanto, Daniel et al. · indexed
90. Effects of acute tryptophan depletion on memory, attention and executive functions: A systematic review ↗ · 2009 · Mendelsohn, Daniel et al. · indexed
91. Positive emotional regard towards the host culture mediates the way bicultural bilinguals detect emotional cues of facial expressions of happiness in a visual search task · 2025 · Damjanovic, Ljubica et al. · archived
92. Updating Thought Theory: Emotion and the Non‐Paradox of Fiction ↗ · 2019 · Adair, Heather V. · indexed
93. The menstrual cycle affects recognition of emotional expressions: an event-related potential study ↗ · 2017 · Yamazaki, Madoka et al. · indexed
94. Links between infant temperament and neurophysiological measures of attention to happy and fearful faces ↗ · 2012 · Martinos, Marina et al. · indexed
95. Age-related alterations in functional connectivity patterns during working memory encoding of emotional items ↗ · 2017 · Ziaei, Maryam et al. · indexed
96. Emotional content affects interpreters ↗ · 2025 · Korpal, Paweł et al. · indexed
97. Facilitating Adaptive Emotion Processing and Somatic Reappraisal via Sustained Mindful Interoceptive Attention ↗ · 2021 · Price, Cynthia J. et al. · indexed
98. Emotional Intelligence as a Driver of Leadership Effectiveness in Higher Education: Insights from Bolgatanga Technical University, Ghana ↗ · 2026 · Adombilla, Baba et al. · indexed