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Training the Emotional Brain: Improving Affective Control through Emotional Working Memory Training

Susanne Schweizer, Jessica Grahn, Adam Hampshire, Dean Mobbs and Tim Dalgleish
Journal of Neuroscience 20 March 2013, 33 (12) 5301-5311; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2593-12.2013
Susanne Schweizer
1Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, United Kingdom, and
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Jessica Grahn
2Western University, Brain Mind Institute and Department of Psychology, Natural Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada
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Adam Hampshire
2Western University, Brain Mind Institute and Department of Psychology, Natural Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada
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Dean Mobbs
1Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, United Kingdom, and
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Affective cognitive control capacity (e.g., the ability to regulate emotions or manipulate emotional material in the service of task goals) is associated with professional and interpersonal success. Impoverished affective control, by contrast, characterizes many neuropsychiatric disorders. Insights from neuroscience indicate that affective cognitive control relies on the same frontoparietal neural circuitry as working memory (WM) tasks, which suggests that systematic WM training, performed in an emotional context, has the potential to augment affective control. Here we show, using behavioral and fMRI measures, that 20 d of training on a novel emotional WM protocol successfully enhanced the efficiency of this frontoparietal demand network. Critically, compared with placebo training, emotional WM training also accrued transfer benefits to a “gold standard” measure of affective cognitive control–emotion regulation. These emotion regulation gains were associated with greater activity in the targeted frontoparietal demand network along with other brain regions implicated in affective control, notably the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex. The results have important implications for the utility of WM training in clinical, prevention, and occupational settings.

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Susanne Schweizer, Jessica Grahn, Adam Hampshire, Dean Mobbs, Tim Dalgleish
Journal of Neuroscience 20 March 2013, 33 (12) 5301-5311; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2593-12.2013

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Journal of Neuroscience 20 March 2013, 33 (12) 5301-5311; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2593-12.2013
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