ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2015
Single-session attention bias modification and error-related brain activity.
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- Multiple Adaptive Attention-Bias-Modification Programs to Alter Normative Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in Adolescents.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The role of attentional shifting in the relation between error monitoring and anxiety in youth.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2022Article
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- The Effect of Safety Signs on the Monitoring of Conflict and Erroneous Response.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- No change in electrocortical measures of performance monitoring in high trait anxious individuals following multi-session attention bias modification training.Neuroimage. Reports · 2021Article
- Neurophysiological predictors of gaze-contingent music reward therapy among adults with social anxiety disorder.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
- Use of cognitive event-related potentials in the management of psychiatric disorders: Towards an individual follow-up and multi-component clinical approach.World journal of psychiatry · 2021Review
- A brief, computerized intervention targeting error sensitivity reduces the error-related negativity.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- A neural biomarker, the error-related negativity, predicts the first onset of generalized anxiety disorder in a large sample of adolescent females.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2018Article
- Neural response to errors is associated with problematic alcohol use over time in combat-exposed returning veterans: An event-related potential study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
- The effect of expressive writing on the error-related negativity among individuals with chronic worry.Psychophysiology · 2018Article
- Brief training in mindfulness may normalize a blunted error-related negativity in chronically depressed patients.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- A biomarker of anxiety in children and adolescents: A review focusing on the error-related negativity (ERN) and anxiety across development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2017Review
- Error-related brain activity in youth and young adults before and after treatment for generalized or social anxiety disorder.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2016Article
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Abstract
An attentional bias to threat has been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Recently, attention bias modification (ABM) has been shown to reduce threat biases and decrease anxiety. However, it is unclear whether ABM modifies neural activity linked to anxiety and risk. The current study examined the relationship between ABM and the error-related negativity (ERN), a putative biomarker of risk for anxiety disorders, and the relationship between the ERN and ABM-based changes in attention to threat. Fifty-nine participants completed a single-session of ABM and a flanker task to elicit the ERN--in counterbalanced order (i.e., ABM-before vs. ABM-after the ERN was measured). Results indicated that the ERN was smaller (i.e., less negative) among individuals who completed ABM-before relative to those who completed ABM-after. Furthermore, greater attentional disengagement from negative stimuli during ABM was associated with a smaller ERN among ABM-before and ABM-after participants. The present study suggests a direct relationship between the malleability of negative attention bias and the ERN. Explanations are provided for how ABM may contribute to reductions in the ERN. Overall, the present study indicates that a single-session of ABM may be related to a decrease in neural activity linked to anxiety and risk.
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