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Description: I tested the way in which emotions impact on action planning. To this aim I directly compare equivalent decision-making processes underlying actions generation cued by emotional stimuli of different valence using an emotional go/no-go task in which participants were required to move when emotional face stimuli with the same arousal values but with opposite valences were presented, and to withhold their responses on neutral faces. I compared the results of this task with those obtained in a control task where the same face stimuli were shown, but this time participants were requested to move according to the facial gender disregarding the emotional values. Only when the emotional stimuli were task-relevant I obtained a consistent behavioral effect. I MUST apologize as at present I have only 10 of the raw data files out of 80 due to a crash of a computer on which most data were stored. I am currently looking for any backup copy. In any case, we have already replicated the behavioral result and we are recording the fMRI of healthy subjects. In addition, we are just running a new behavioral experiment in which both happy and fear conditions are included. As soon as possible all the new data will be made available in this platform. Again I deeply apologize.