АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ПСИХОФИЗИОЛОГИИ EMOTIONAL AND COGNITIVE SELFREGULATION G. Matthews Department of Psychology University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 210376, USA A. Kustubayeva, A. Tolegenova, A. Kamzanova, M. Zholdassova Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Al-Farabi ave., 71, Almaty city, Kazakhstan, 050038 A brief outline of four studies that investigated interrelations of cognitive and emotional regulation in collaboration between Departments of Psychology of the University of Cincinnati and Kazakh National University is presented in this article. <...> The aim of the first research was to examine the role of EI in regulating the affective response to a potentially threatening video and relation to brain electrical activity. <...> The second study, conducted at the University of Cincinnati, explored the role of emotion in the search for information relevant to decision-making. <...> The third study was devoted to the evaluating the sensitivity of a range of EEG indexes of engagement to time-on-task effects and to workload manipulation (cueing) during vigilance task performance. <...> The fourth research was based on Posner’s theory of executive control and Matthews’ theory of task engagement. <...> Results of empirical studies has theoretical meaning in understanding selfregulation and practical value in different fields of applied psychology. <...> On the positive side, emotions may help the decision-maker to judge the personal impact of the consequences of decisions, and motivate evaluation of different choices. <...> On the negative side, emotions may distort appraisal of the problem and of the decision-maker’s own personal resources. <...> Emotional and Cognitive Self-Regulation cognitive theories of emotion [23]. <...> Thus, the subject’s cognitive strategy for processing threat has powerful effects on emotion. <...> In Eastern Europe the idea that behavior is regulated by a hierarchy of control systems is central to major psychological theories, including those of A.R. Luria, P.K. Anokhin, O.K. Tikhomirov, Yu. <...> Emotional functioning is the holistic coordination of different levels of human activity [2; 3]. <...> Tikhomirov and his colleagues described the effect of the emotional predetermination in decision making and its influence on activity. <...> Empirical studies show that emotions have an array of effects on immediate stimulus processing, such as selective attention and retrieval from memory that may bias decision making. <...> Emotions also influence the projection of cognition into the future, e.g <...>