Deficient cognitive control over emotional material
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The gap
Deficient cognitive control over emotional material and cognitive biases are important mechanisms underlying depression, but the interplay between these emotionally distorted cognitive processes in relation to depressive symptoms is not wel
Evidence profile
Stated in the abstract section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2011 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 165 times in total.
Research trend
Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Spatiotemporal unfolding of prefrontal neural response divergence in adolescent depression during naturalistic experience (2026) · bioRxiv · doi
Depression alters how emotional experience is interpreted and regulated, yet how depression-related neural divergence unfolds during ongoing experience remains poorly understood, leaving unresolved whether such divergence reflects stable trait-like abnormalities or state-dependent responses that emerge only at particular moments.
generalstated in abstractevidence 3/5Keywords: depression experience divergence alters emotional interpreted regulated related neural unfolds ongoing remains poorly understood leaving - Emotion modulates cognitive flexibility in patients with major depression (2011) · Psychological Medicine · cited 112× · doi
Previous research has shown that depressed patients are impaired in their ability to shift attention from one emotional category to another, but whether this shifting deficit is more evident on emotional relative to non-emotional cognitive control tasks remains unclear.
generalstated in abstractevidence 2/5Keywords: emotional previous depressed patients impaired ability shift attention category whether shifting deficit evident relative cognitive - Individual differences in cognitive control over emotional material modulate cognitive biases linked to depressive symptoms (2016) · Cognition & Emotion · cited 53× · doi
Deficient cognitive control over emotional material and cognitive biases are important mechanisms underlying depression, but the interplay between these emotionally distorted cognitive processes in relation to depressive symptoms is not well understood.
generalstated in abstractevidence 2/5Keywords: cognitive deficient control emotional material biases important mechanisms underlying depression interplay emotionally distorted processes relation
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