Tasks requiring subjects to attend emotional attributes of words have been used to study
mood-congruent information processing biases in anxiety and affective disorders. In this
study we adapted an emotional go/no-go task, for use with fMRI to assess the neural
substrates of focusing on emotional attributes of words in normal subjects. The key findings
were that responding to targets defined on the basis of meaning of words compared to
targets defined on the basis of perceptual features was associated with response in inferior …