Impaired cognitive control in clinical depression: general but no valence-specific impairments

Introduction: Cognitive control impairments are hypothesized to underlie cognitive and affective features of depression, such as mood-congruent processing biases, rumination, and sustained negative affect. Prior research yielded only mixed evidence for the presence of general cognitive control impairments in depression and the idea of valence-specific reductions in cognitive control has been advocated. To date, the null precise role of emotional...