Emotional modulation of inhibitory control in rumination from empirical and computational perspectives

Rumination involves repetitive dwelling on negative thoughts, emotions and memories and is a risk factor for depression. Cognitive theories suggest that rumination stems from heightened automatic, emotional stimuli-driven (i.e., “bottom-up”) and/or deficits in effortful, goal-directed (i.e., “top-down”) processes. It remains unclear whether rumination arises from bottom-up processes impacting top-down inhibitory control, or from impaired …