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Chen Y, Deng X. How Socially Avoidant Emerging Adults Process Social Feedback during Human-to-Human Interaction after Social Rejection: An Event-Related Potential Study. Behav Sci (Basel) 2024; 14:457. [PMID: 38920789 PMCID: PMC11200703 DOI: 10.3390/bs14060457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Revised: 05/26/2024] [Accepted: 05/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024] Open
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Social avoidance refers to active non-participation in social activities, which is detrimental to healthy interpersonal interaction for emerging adults. Social rejection is a kind of negative social evaluation from others making people feel social pain. However, how socially avoidant emerging adults process social feedback information after experiencing social rejection has received less attention. The current study aimed to explore the differences in social interaction feedback processing after social rejection between a socially avoidant group (n = 16) and a comparison group (n = 16) in a human-to-human interaction context. Computer game tasks with two types of interaction (cooperation and competition) were used to record the event-related potentials when receiving social interaction feedback in two conditions (social rejection and control condition). The results showed that (1) the socially avoidant group had lower reward positivity amplitudes than the comparison group when receiving social feedback; (2) the socially avoidant group presented larger P300 amplitudes in the social rejection condition than in the control condition, but the comparison group did not; and (3) social rejection evoked more negative N1 amplitudes in the socially avoidant and comparison groups. The findings suggest that socially avoidant emerging adults may have flaws in reward sensitivity during interpersonal interaction, and they might also exert more attentional and emotional resources to social feedback after social rejection.
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- Yangdi Chen
- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- The Shenzhen Humanities & Social Sciences Key Research Bases of the Center for Mental Health, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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Li L, Yu Q, Wang Y, Wang Z, Zhou X, Guan Q, Luo YJ, Li H. Electrophysiological evidence of lexical processing impacted by foreign language reading anxiety. Heliyon 2024; 10:e30061. [PMID: 38720696 PMCID: PMC11076877 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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Extensive studies have been conducted on the impact of foreign language reading anxiety on reading, primarily focusing on pedagogy and behavior but lacking electrophysiological evidence. The current study aimed to investigate the influence of foreign language reading anxiety on reading and its underlying mechanisms. The results revealed a negative correlation between foreign language reading anxiety and foreign language reading performance, irrespective of the native language. Adults with low levels of foreign language reading anxiety (LFLRA) demonstrated a significant difference in early lexical component N170 amplitude between foreign and native languages. However, this effect was not observed in adults with high levels of foreign language reading anxiety (HFLRA). In terms of N170 latency, HFLRA showed a longer N170 for the foreign language compared to the native language. Furthermore, the N170 effects were predominantly localized over the left occipitotemporal electrodes. Regarding N400 latency, a significant difference was found in LFLRA individuals between foreign and native language processing, while HFLRA individuals did not exhibit this difference. These findings suggest that HFLRA individuals experience inefficient lexical processing (such as orthography or semantics) during reading in foreign language.
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- Lina Li
- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, PR China
- English Department, Jilin Medical College, Jilin, PR China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, PR China
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Wang G, Ma L, Wang L, Pang W. Independence Threat or Interdependence Threat? The Focusing Effect on Social or Physical Threat Modulates Brain Activity. Brain Sci 2024; 14:368. [PMID: 38672018 PMCID: PMC11047893 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14040368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2024] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE The neural basis of threat perception has mostly been examined separately for social or physical threats. However, most of the threats encountered in everyday life are complex. The features of interactions between social and physiological threats under different attentional conditions are unclear. METHOD The present study explores this issue using an attention-guided paradigm based on ERP techniques. The screen displays social threats (face threats) and physical threats (action threats), instructing participants to concentrate on only one type of threat, thereby exploring brain activation characteristics. RESULTS It was found that action threats did not affect the processing of face threats in the face-attention condition, and electrophysiological evidence from the brain suggests a comparable situation to that when processing face threats alone, with higher amplitudes of the N170 and EPN (Early Posterior Negativity) components of anger than neutral emotions. However, when focusing on the action-attention condition, the brain was affected by face threats, as evidenced by a greater N190 elicited by stimuli containing threatening emotions, regardless of whether the action was threatening or not. This trend was also reflected in EPN. CONCLUSIONS The current study reveals important similarities and differences between physical and social threats, suggesting that the brain has a greater processing advantage for social threats.
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- Guan Wang
- The School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- School of Education Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian 223300, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian 223300, China
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- School of Education Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian 223300, China
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- The School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Zhang P, Song Y, Tadesse E, Khalid S, Gao C, Li W. An EPR study of the cognitive processes underlying the impact of self-relevant information on emotional word processing. BMC Psychol 2024; 12:90. [PMID: 38389094 PMCID: PMC10885381 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-024-01586-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
Abstract
Using the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique, this study successively presented names (in either a supra- or subthreshold manner) and emotional words to examine how self-relevant cue (self-name) affects emotional word processing in word class judgment task (to determine whether an emotional word is a noun or adjective) and valence judgment task (to determine whether an emotional word is positive or negative). At the suprathreshold condition, self-relevant positive words elicited a more significant Early posterior negativity (EPN) than negative words only in the valence judgment task. In contrast, at the subthreshold condition, self-relevant negative words elicited an enhanced Late positive potential (LPP) than positive words only in the word class judgment task. These results indicate that self-relevant cue affects emotional word processing at both suprathreshold and subthreshold conditions; nevertheless, the effect manifests as self-positive bias at the suprathreshold condition and self-negative bias at the subthreshold condition. The experimental task modulates these dynamics.
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- Ping Zhang
- Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College, Shanghai, China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
- Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
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- Faculty of Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
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- Faculty of Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
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- Faculty of Education, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China.
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
- Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
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Wall KM, Penner F, Dell J, Lowell A, Potenza MN, Mayes LC, Rutherford HJV. Maternal psychological risk and the neural correlates of infant face processing: A latent profile analysis. Dev Psychobiol 2024; 66:e22445. [PMID: 38131237 PMCID: PMC10783861 DOI: 10.1002/dev.22445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Maternal psychological factors, including anxiety, depression, and substance use, may negatively affect parenting. Previous works with mothers have often assessed each of these factors in isolation despite their frequent co-occurrence. Psychological factors have also been associated with neural processing of facial stimuli, specifically the amplitude (i.e., size) and latency (i.e., timing) of the face-specific N170 event-related potential. In the current study, 106 mothers completed measures assessing maternal psychological factors-anxiety, depression, and substance use. A latent profile analysis was used to identify profiles of psychological factors and assess profile associations with the N170 elicited by infant faces and with parental reflective functioning (PRF) as a measure related to caregiving. Two profiles (termed high and low psychological risk) were identified, with the higher risk profile associated with delayed N170 latency responses to infant faces. An exploratory analysis evidenced an indirect effect between the higher psychological risk profile and lower PRF through delayed N170 latency responses to infant faces. Taken together, maternal psychological risk across multiple indicators may together shape neural processing of infant faces, which may have downstream consequences for caregiving.
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- Kathryn M Wall
- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida St Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- The Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
- The Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Hamrick HC, Hager NM, Middlebrooks MS, Mach RJ, Abid A, Allan NP, Judah MR. Social concerns about anxious arousal explain the association between neural responses to anxious arousal pictures and social anxiety. Biol Psychol 2024; 185:108718. [PMID: 37951347 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/13/2023]
Abstract
Cognitive theories propose that social anxiety disorder involves heightened attention to anxious arousal symptoms due to worries that they may evoke rejection from others. Supporting this, studies have shown that social anxiety is related to greater attention to representations of anxious arousal and to anxiety sensitivity social concerns, which refers to sensitivity to feelings of anxious arousal during social situations. However, this has not yet been tested using neural indices of attention to images depicting anxious arousal. To examine these associations, the current study examined early and sustained attentional bias to anxious arousal images using the P2 and the late positive potential (LPP), respectively. Electroencephalogram data were collected while a non-clinical sample of undergraduate students (N = 106) viewed images of people exhibiting anxious arousal in addition to blocks of negative and neutral images from the IAPS. The neural response to anxious arousal images was isolated using residual scores (e.g., using linear regression to predict the P2 elicited by anxious arousal images from the P2 elicited by neutral images (P2neutral→AA) or negative images (P2negative→AA), then saving the unstandardized residuals). There was an indirect effect of the P2neutral→AA and P2negative→AA waveforms that was explained by anxiety sensitivity social concerns. Additionally, there was an indirect effect of both LPP waveforms on social anxiety symptoms during the early time window of the LPP (400-700 ms). At the later time window of the LPP (700-1000 ms), there was an indirect effect of the LPPneutral→AA residual waveform, but not the LPPnegative→AA, on social anxiety symptoms.
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- Hannah C Hamrick
- University of Arkansas, Department of Psychological Science, Fayetteville, AR, United States.
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- Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, Norfolk, VA, United States; Old Dominion University, Department of Psychology, Norfolk, VA, United States
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- University of Arkansas, Department of Psychological Science, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- University of Arkansas, Department of Psychological Science, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- University of Arkansas, Department of Psychological Science, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- University of Arkansas, Department of Psychological Science, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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Pei G, Xiao Q, Pan Y, Li T, Jin J. Neural evidence of face processing in social anxiety disorder: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 152:105283. [PMID: 37315657 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Numerous previous studies have used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine facial processing deficits in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD). However, researchers still need to determine whether the deficits are general or specific and what the dominant factors are behind different cognitive stages. Meta-analysis was performed to quantitatively identify face processing deficits in individuals with SAD. Ninety-seven results in 27 publications involving 1032 subjects were calculated using Hedges' g. The results suggest that the face itself elicits enlarged P1 amplitudes, threat-related facial expressions induce larger P2 amplitudes, and negative facial expressions lead to enhanced P3/LPP amplitudes in SAD individuals compared with controls. That is, there is face perception attentional bias in the early phase (P1), threat attentional bias in the mid-term phase (P2), and negative emotion attentional bias in the late phase (P3/LPP), which can be summarized into a three-phase SAD face processing deficit model. These findings provide an essential theoretical basis for cognitive behavioral therapy and have significant application value for the initial screening, intervention, and treatment of social anxiety.
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- Guanxiong Pei
- Research Center for Multi-Modal Intelligence, Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang Lab, 1818# Wenyixi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence for Information Behavior (Ministry of Education and Shanghai), 550# Dalian West Road, Shanghai 200083, China; School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University, 550# Dalian West Road, Shanghai 200083, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence for Information Behavior (Ministry of Education and Shanghai), 550# Dalian West Road, Shanghai 200083, China; School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University, 550# Dalian West Road, Shanghai 200083, China
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- Research Center for Multi-Modal Intelligence, Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang Lab, 1818# Wenyixi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence for Information Behavior (Ministry of Education and Shanghai), 550# Dalian West Road, Shanghai 200083, China; School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University, 550# Dalian West Road, Shanghai 200083, China; Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology, Joint Lab of Finance and Business Intelligence, 2515# Huandao North Road, Zhuhai 519031, China.
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Zhao R, Ma W, Li C, Yang M, He S, Mao N, Dong X, Cui L. Trait anxiety is related to an impaired attention model for controllable threat cues: Evidence from ERPs. Biol Psychol 2023; 177:108508. [PMID: 36706862 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Attentional bias to threat cues is maladaptive for individuals with high trait anxiety (HTA), but may become adaptive when the dangers signaled by these cues can be controlled by timely actions. However, it remains unclear how HTA individuals allocate attention to controllable threat cues. The current study examined whether trait anxiety is associated with an impaired attention model for controllable threat cues and explored the related underlying neural mechanisms. A sample of 21 participants with low trait anxiety (LTA) and 21 with HTA completed a modified cued anticipation task which allowed participants to control the appearance of threatening pictures associated with controllable threat cues. Results revealed that HTA individuals had no difference in N1 amplitude among controllable threat cues, uncontrollable threat cues, and neutral cues, while LTA individuals showed the greatest N1 amplitude on controllable cues. HTA individuals also exhibited lower N2 amplitude than LTA individuals. The current study provides electrophysiological evidence showing that HTA individuals have impaired attention for processing controllable threat cues and weak inhibitory control. Deficient attention to controllable threat cues may be crucial in the mechanisms underlying trait anxiety.
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- Ruonan Zhao
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China; School of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China.
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Hu C, Song X, Song J, Hong Y, Zhou R. Neurophysiological Correlates for Dynamic Variability Between Vigilance and Avoidance in Test Anxiety. Biol Psychol 2022; 175:108427. [PMID: 36170941 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Attention bias (ABs) to threat is essential in the etiology and maintenance of test anxiety. However, little is known about the attention pattern of ABs in test anxiety. The stimulus duration affects the attention pattern in anxiety. Thus, the present research combined the dot-probe paradigm and event-related potentials (ERPs) and varied the stimulus duration (100ms or 500ms) to test the ABs in test anxiety. Consequently, both groups showed a threat N2pc in 100ms and 500ms duration, suggesting that both groups allocated attention to the test-related threat. However, in the 100ms duration, the high test-anxious (HTA) group had smaller target-elicited P1 and greater target-elicited N2 in the threat-congruent condition than in the neutral condition. In the 500ms duration, an earlier threat N2pc and a threat PD followed a greater target P1, and smaller target N2 were pronounced in the HTA group. The current results provided electrophysiological evidence that the HTA group kept a dynamic attention pattern that fluctuated shift between vigilance and avoidance in the 100ms and 500ms duration. The HTA group was more vigilant than the LTA group in the 500ms duration when strategic attention was concerned, proposing that the vigilance in test anxiety was not an automatic process.
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- Cenlou Hu
- Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Sciences & Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- National Education Examinations Authority, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Sciences & Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems, Beijing, China.
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Miraghaie AM, Pouretemad H, Villa AEP, Mazaheri MA, Khosrowabadi R, Lintas A. Electrophysiological Markers of Fairness and Selfishness Revealed by a Combination of Dictator and Ultimatum Games. Front Syst Neurosci 2022; 16:765720. [PMID: 35615426 PMCID: PMC9124946 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.765720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Individual behavior during financial decision making is motivated by fairness, but an unanswered question from previous studies is whether particular patterns of brain activity correspond to different profiles of fairness. Event Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 39 participants who played the role of allocators in a Dictator Game (DG) and responders in an Ultimatum Game (UG). Two very homogeneous groups were formed by fair and selfish individuals. At fronto-central cortical sites, the latency of ERP early negativity (N1) was 10 ms shorter in selfish participants than in fair participants. In fair DG players, the subsequent positive wave P2 suggested that more cognitive resources were required when they allocated the least gains to the other party. P2 latency and amplitude in the selfish group supported the hypothesis that these participants tended to maximize their profit. During UG, we observed that medial frontal negativity (MFN) occurred earlier and with greater amplitude when selfish participants rejected less favorable endowment shares. In this case, all players received zero payoffs, which showed that MFN in selfish participants was associated with a spiteful punishment. At posterior-parietal sites, we found that the greater the selfishness, the greater the amplitude of the late positive component (LPC). Our results bring new evidence to the existence of specific somatic markers associated with the activation of distinct cerebral circuits by the evaluation of fair and unfair proposals in participants characterized by different expressions of perceived fairness, thus suggesting that a particular brain dynamics could be associated with moral decisions.
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- Ali M. Miraghaie
- Faculty of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
- NeuroHeuristic Research Group, HEC-Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- *Correspondence: Ali M. Miraghaie
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- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
- Hamidreza Pouretemad
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- NeuroHeuristic Research Group, HEC-Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- NeuroHeuristic Research Group, HEC-Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- LABEX, HEC-Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Alessandra Lintas
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Tipura E, Zanesco J, Clément F, Renaud O, Pegna AJ. Am I really seeing what's around me? An ERP study on social anxiety under speech induction, uncertainty and social feedback. Biol Psychol 2022; 169:108285. [PMID: 35122890 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cognitive models of social anxiety propose that socially anxious individuals engage in excessive self-focusing attention when entering a social situation. In the present study, speech anxiety was induced to socially anxious and control participants. Event-related potentials were recorded while participants performed a perceptual judgment task using distinct or ambiguous stimuli, before and after social feedback. Disputed feedback led to more revisions and decreased levels of confidence, especially among socially anxious individuals. Prior feedback, greater occipital P1 amplitudes in both groups for ambiguous probes indicated heightened sensory facilitation to ambiguous information, and greater anterior N1 amplitudes for ambiguous stimuli in highly anxious participants suggested anticipation of negative feedback in this group. Post-feedback, P1, N1 and LPP amplitudes were reduced overall among socially anxious individuals indicating a reduction in sensory facilitation of visual information. These results suggest excessive self-focusing among socially anxious individuals, possibly linked to anticipation of an anxiety-provoking social situation.
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- Eda Tipura
- Methodology and Data Analysis, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Laboratory of Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Centre for Cognitive Sciences, University of Neuchatel, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland
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- Centre for Cognitive Sciences, University of Neuchatel, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland
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- Methodology and Data Analysis, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Cognitive and Experimental Neuropsychology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD-4072, Australia
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Kökçam B, Arslan C, Traş Z. Do Psychological Resilience and Emotional Intelligence Vary Among Stress Profiles in University Students? A Latent Profile Analysis. Front Psychol 2022; 12:788506. [PMID: 35153911 PMCID: PMC8832065 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.788506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant changes in the lifestyle of students. However, despite an extensive study of students’ life stress using a non-comprehensive scale and variable-centered approach, it has been little studied with a comprehensive scale and person-centered approach. Using the Student-Life Stress Inventory-revised (SSI-R), we analyzed students’ latent stress profiles and examined differences in psychological resilience and emotional intelligence by comparing stress profiles from a sample of 418 undergraduate and graduate students (aged 18–36) in various departments of eight universities in Turkey. We identified five distinct stress profiles, defined as an extremely low stress group (ELSG), a low stress group (LSG), a medium stress group (MSG), a high stress group (HSG), and an extremely high stress group (EHSG). We found that (1) MSG and HSG were similar in terms of emotional intelligence, resilience, and possession of high standards, and they reported higher levels of physiological, emotional, and behavioral reactions than ELSG and LSG; (2) MSG felt more pressure than HSG; (3) ELSG reported higher levels of emotional intelligence (wellbeing, self-control, and emotionality) than others. Also, EHSG reported lower levels of emotional intelligence (specifically self-control) than others; (4) whereas resilience was highly positively correlated to wellbeing, resilience and wellbeing were moderately negatively correlated to stress. Extremely low stress group and LSG reported higher levels of resilience than others. Medium stress group, HSG, and EHSG did not differ with regard to resilience and wellbeing. Our results suggest that, university students are able to maintain their functionality by coping up with stress in some ways, no matter how stressful they are. These findings are discussed in relation to the relevant literature.
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Jin SY, Zhang JZ, Sun RH, Jiang CG, Wang J, Zhou ZH. The neural correlates of interference control dysfunction of working memory in major depressive disorder: An event-related potential study. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1003491. [PMID: 36245877 PMCID: PMC9561927 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1003491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Interference control function is a key function in a series of specific functions of working memory (WM), which is usually impaired in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Event-related potentials (ERPs) have advantages in exploring the neural processing of interference control and WM impairment, and therefore, it is helpful to further understand the neural mechanism of MDD. In the present study, 44 patients with MDD and 44 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs) were recruited. All participants completed a 4-gradient difficulty Brown-Peterson task (BPT), whose difficulty was manipulated by changing the demand of interspersed distraction tasks. High-density EEG was simultaneously recorded. The hit rate and reaction time (RT) toward the target stimulus as well as the underlying ERP features were analyzed. The results showed that, when compared with HCs, MDD patients had significantly lower hit rates and longer RTs among all four difficulties of BPT. For ERP components, no significant between-group difference was found in either N100 or P200 average amplitudes; however, the centroparietal late positive potential (LPP) amplitude of both MDD group and HC group decreased with the increase of BPT difficulty, despite the pattern of the HC group was relative moderate. For both groups, the LPP amplitude was significantly smaller in high-order difficult BPT tasks than in low-order difficult tasks. Moreover, LPP amplitude in high-order difficult tasks was much smaller in MDD group than that of HC group. Our findings suggest that failure to control interference well may play a critical role in the impairment of WM in patients with MDD, and provided new evidence that the neural correlates of interference control dysfunction of WM in MDD.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sha-Yu Jin
- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- 3 Grade 2019 Class 6, Basic Medicine College of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Emotional processing changes of qigong on college students: A pilot ERP study of a randomized controlled trial. JOURNAL OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICAL SCIENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcms.2021.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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