Influence of positive subliminal and supraliminal affective cues on goal pursuit in XXXX .

@entity1 @entity101 @entity73 @entity471 @entity161
Goal pursuit is known to be impaired in @entity161 , but nothing much is known in these @entity1 about unconscious affective processes underlying goal pursuit. Evidence suggests that in healthy individuals positive subliminal cues are taken as a signal that goal pursuit is easy and therefore reduce the effort that is mobilized for goal attainment. @entity1 with @entity161 and healthy controls were instructed that a long run of successive correct responses in a visual attention task would entitle them to a reward (the goal to attain). Affective pictures were displayed supraliminally or subliminally during each run and electrophysiological activity was recorded. @entity1 self-assessed the emotional content of the pictures correctly. However, differences between @entity1 and controls emerged during the goal pursuit task. Healthy controls mobilized less effort for the positive than the neutral subliminal pictures, as suggested by @entity101 and the weaker contingent negative variation ( @entity471 ). For the @entity1 , no influence of positive subliminal pictures was found on performance and on the @entity471 . Similarly the influence of positive pictures was absent or abnormal on components which are usually impaired in @entity1 (fronto-central P2 and N2). In contrast, positive pictures influenced normally the parieto-occipital N2, related to a component of visual attention which has been proposed to be preserved in @entity161 . The present study indicates the difficulties of @entity1 to modulate effort mobilization during goal pursuit in the presence of positive subliminal cues. The results question the role of @entity73 on affective influences.
