Zdegradowane prezentacje słów związanych z emocjami o genezie automatycznej bądź refleksyjnej a przejawy efektywności kontroli uwagi w Teście Antysakkad

The article aimed at presenting relationships of induced affective state on cognitive control efficiency. Emotional state and cognitive control relationship seems to be one of the most important gates allowing us a glimpse into the nature of emotion-cognition interactions nature. We tested the emotions’ duality of mind model consequences. According to this model we distinguish automatic and reflective emotional processes. We expected that the affective state triggered by the presentation of degraded verbal stimuli would affect the efficiency of saccade towards new stimulus control. The study involved 50 students from various faculties of the University of Warsaw in age from 19 to 30 years. As experimental manipulation we used degraded presentation of words connected with automatic and reflective evaluative system on both positive and negative valence. The dependent variable was the correctness of the Antisaccade Task performance. It turned out that the effectiveness control dependent on the interactive effect of valence and emotion's origin. We also found postulated negative - positive asymmetry in case of reflective emotions.