@misc{10481/104134,
year = {2025},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/104134},
abstract = {In two online experiments, we aimed to study the relationship between emotion dysregulation and persistence of incentive
salience attributed to reward cues. Participants’ negative urgency (NU) was assessed before they completed a value-modulated
attentional capture (VMAC) task measuring incentive salience as attentional sign-tracking. This consisted of two phases
– rewarded and unrewarded – to evaluate the persistence of the VMAC effect. Subsequently, a Pavlovian-to-instrumental
transfer (PIT) procedure was employed as another measure of incentive salience. In Experiment 1 both outcome-specific and
general PIT effects were assessed, along with the impact of instrumental outcome devaluation (OD). Experiment 2 focused
on the effect of Pavlovian extinction on specific PIT. Both outcome devaluation and extinction are indices of implicit emotion
regulation. In Experiment 1, the OD index showed a significant positive correlation with specific PIT and a negative
correlation with the NU score. In Experiment 2, the extinction index of specific PIT, linked to the level of explicit knowledge
of the contingencies, correlated negatively with NU. The VMAC effect and its persistence showed correlations with
NU, positive and negative, respectively (Experiment 1). No relationships were found between any measure of VMAC and
OD or PIT effects in any of the experiments. These findings suggest that difficulties in emotion regulation are associated
with increased attentional sign-tracking and can hinder action control and selection. These phenomena may be governed by
distinct mechanisms, with the VMAC effect being more automatic and the specific PIT effect exhibiting varying degrees of
goal-directed behavior depending on the effectiveness of implicit emotion regulation strategies.},
organization = {Universidad de Granada/CBUA},
organization = {MCIN/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 PID2021-127985 NB-I00},
organization = {“ERDF A way of making Europe” FPU20/01987},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
title = {Extinction of outcome-specific PIT, instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity.},
doi = {10.3758/s13420-025-00676-1},
author = {González Reyes, Felisa and Garre Frutos, Francisco and Hinojosa Aguayo, Irene and Hall, Geoffrey},
}