ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2011
The effect of induced anxiety on cognition: threat of shock enhances aversive processing in healthy individuals.
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- Threat reduces value-driven but not salience-driven attentional capture.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2020Article
- The 'Threat of Scream' paradigm: a tool for studying sustained physiological and subjective anxiety.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Individuals with anxiety disorders demonstrate altered cognitive performance including (1) cognitive biases towards negative stimuli (affective biases) and (2) increased cognitive rigidity (e.g., impaired conflict adaptation) on affective Stroop tasks. Threat of electric shock is frequently used to induce anxiety in healthy individuals, but the extent to which this manipulation mimics the cognitive impairment seen in anxiety disorders is unclear. In this study, 31 healthy individuals completed an affective Stroop task under safe and threat-of-shock conditions. We showed that threat (1) enhanced aversive processing and abolished a positive affective bias but (2) had no effect on conflict adaptation. Threat of shock thus partially models the effects of anxiety disorders on affective Stroop tasks. We suggest that the affective state of anxiety-which is common to both threat and anxiety disorders-modulates the neural inhibition of subcortical aversive processing, whilst pathologies unique to anxiety disorders modulate conflict adaptation.
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