Publications by authors named "Erik Malte Mueller"
Article Synopsis
- Frontal alpha asymmetry was thought to indicate levels of approach motivation, but recent studies found little connection between it and personality traits.
- A study using data from the CoScience project (n=740) measured frontal asymmetry during different tasks to see if it varied based on approach motivation.
- The results showed that frontal asymmetry wasn't significantly influenced by the tasks and did not correlate with self-reported personality traits, undermining its validity as a marker for approach motivation.
Prior research suggests that cognitive control, indicated by NoGo N2 amplitudes in Go/NoGo tasks, is associated with dispositional anxiety. This negative association tends to be reduced in anxiety-enhancing experimental conditions. However, anxiety-reducing conditions have not yet been investigated systematically.
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