Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict
Motivational systems of approach, avoidance, and inhibition are fundamental to human behavior. While past research has linked approach motivation with greater relative left frontal asymmetry, many attempts to link avoidance motivation with greater relative right frontal asymmetry have been mixed. Th...
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| description | Motivational systems of approach, avoidance, and inhibition are fundamental to human behavior. While past research has linked approach motivation with greater relative left frontal asymmetry, many attempts to link avoidance motivation with greater relative right frontal asymmetry have been mixed. These mixed effects could be due to coactivation of the avoidance and behavioral inhibition system (BIS). Much recent evidence indicates that the behavioral inhibition system may be associated with greater relative right frontal activation. The current review examines evidence linking traits associated with the behavioral inhibition system with resting right frontal asymmetry. Other research links individual differences associated with the behavioral inhibition system with state changes in relative right frontal asymmetry. Moreover, activation of the behavioral inhibition system, but not activation of withdrawal motivation, increases greater relative right frontal asymmetry. Together, this work highlights the role of relative frontal asymmetry as a neural correlate in motivational conflict and helps to disentangle behavioral inhibition from avoidance motivation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-32bd37335bae490a84f41362267cc0102023-11-30T22:35:35ZengMDPI AGSymmetry2073-89942022-03-0114350710.3390/sym14030507Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational ConflictMicayla French Lacey0Philip A. Gable1Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USADepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USAMotivational systems of approach, avoidance, and inhibition are fundamental to human behavior. While past research has linked approach motivation with greater relative left frontal asymmetry, many attempts to link avoidance motivation with greater relative right frontal asymmetry have been mixed. These mixed effects could be due to coactivation of the avoidance and behavioral inhibition system (BIS). Much recent evidence indicates that the behavioral inhibition system may be associated with greater relative right frontal activation. The current review examines evidence linking traits associated with the behavioral inhibition system with resting right frontal asymmetry. Other research links individual differences associated with the behavioral inhibition system with state changes in relative right frontal asymmetry. Moreover, activation of the behavioral inhibition system, but not activation of withdrawal motivation, increases greater relative right frontal asymmetry. Together, this work highlights the role of relative frontal asymmetry as a neural correlate in motivational conflict and helps to disentangle behavioral inhibition from avoidance motivation.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/507motivationfrontal asymmetrycognitive control |
| spellingShingle | Micayla French Lacey Philip A. Gable Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict Symmetry motivation frontal asymmetry cognitive control |
| title | Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict |
| title_full | Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict |
| title_fullStr | Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict |
| title_short | Frontal Asymmetry as a Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict |
| title_sort | frontal asymmetry as a neural correlate of motivational conflict |
| topic | motivation frontal asymmetry cognitive control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/507 |
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