The Stroop Test is a tool that allows exploring selective attention, cognitive conflict resolution (inhibition of irrelevant reading automatism) and processing speed, and is usually applied to evaluate executive functions. A modified version, the facial Emotional Stroop (ES), was developed in order to address the interference of irrelevant affective distractors. With this task, the authors demonstrated in healthy volunteers, that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the amygdala are the areas implicated in emotional conflict monitoring whereas rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) activation associates with emotional conflict resolution through a top-down inhibition of the amygdala in order to avoid the interference of new irrelevant emotional distracters. The same group designed a variant of the task by adding non-emotional cognitive trials in which subjects had to identify the gender of the faces instead of the affect. Through this paradigm, they were able to dissociate neural nets involved in cognitive conflict resolution from those specifically involved in emotional conflict resolution. Hence, while lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) was shown to resolve non-emotional conflict, the pregenual part of the anterior cingulate cortex, that is, the rACC is involved in emotional conflict resolution. On the contrary, the detection of both types of conflict share activation of a common region of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.