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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2008 May 3;42(2):988–997. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.04.248

Figure 2. Post-emotion adjustment of reaction time following affective Go and NoGo words.

Figure 2

(A) Emotional stimuli facilitated reaction times in immediately following trials. Responses following Negative targets were faster than those following Positive targets, which were in turn faster than those following Neutral targets (all pairwise comparisons, p<0.002).

(B) Affective arousal modulated reaction times following successful response inhibition. Responses were slower following successful response inhibition to emotional words than following response inhibition to Neutral words; reaction times following response inhibition to Positive and Negative words did not differ (Positive vs. Neutral, p < .009; Negative vs. Neutral, p < .003; Negative vs. Positive, p > .35).