# Affective Modulation of Preparatory Cognitive Activity

## TL;DR

This study explores how negative emotions disrupt cognitive preparation, especially under high mental effort, using brain and eye-tracking data.

## Contribution

The novel finding is that negative emotional cues interfere with cognitive preparation under high executive load but not low.

## Key findings

- Negative emotional cues disrupt preparatory cognitive processes under high executive load.
- EEG and eye-tracking data reveal affective modulation of cognitive preparation.
- Emotional interference effects are selective to high-load conditions.

## Abstract

This EEG and eye‐tracking study investigated affective influences on cognitive preparation using a precued pro−/antisaccade task with emotional faces as cues. Negative information interfered with preparatory processes with high but not low executive function load.