Fig. 1.

Schematic overview of the fMRI working memory (WM) task with emotional distraction. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were recorded while participants performed a WM task with instructions to selectively attend to positive/negative targets and ignoring neutral or emotional (positive and negative) distractors. Working memory performance was measured using a yes/no forced-choice task where participants indicated with a button press whether the probe was part of the current target set. Stimuli consisted of pictures takes from the international affective picture system (IAPS) and were presented in color