Previous lesion studies suggest that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC) is a critical neural substrate of an emotion processing system which includes other cortical and subcortical structures. However, there are few data regarding VMPC patients' attentional focus among complex emotional distracters. In addition, although fMRI and performance, this capacity ahs not been tested among patients with focal damage to these respective regions. This study tested the role of the (VMPC) in the selective processing of emotion-word and emotion-face stimuli. VMPC, non-VMPC, and non-lesion participants' selective attention to non-emotional stimuli among emotionally negative, positive, and neutral word and face stimuli (Emotional Stroop) was assessed using response latency measures. So far, work has focused on developing and validating the experimental tasks.