ArticleNeural plasticity2018
Examination Stress Results in Attentional Bias and Altered Neural Reactivity in Test-Anxious Individuals.
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- Academic Buoyancy: Overcoming Test Anxiety and Setbacks.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex improves attentional control in chronically stressed adults.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of Expressive Writing on "Choking under Pressure" in High Test-Anxious Individuals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evidence for dynamic attentional bias toward positive emotion-laden words: A behavioral and electrophysiological study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Autonomic Nervous System Response Patterns of Test-Anxious Individuals to Evaluative Stress.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Neural Processing of Cognitive Control in an Emotionally Neutral Context in Anxiety Patients.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Impact of Chronic Stress on Attention Control: Evidence from Behavioral and Event-Related Potential Analyses.Neuroscience bulletin · 2020Article
- The neural chronometry of threat-related attentional bias: Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for early and late stages of selective attentional processing.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Examination stress occurs so frequently in the lives of students. The neural mechanisms of attentional bias induced by examination stress in test-anxious individuals remain unclear. Accordingly, we investigated the attentional bias toward test-related threatening words in selected high and low test-anxious participants under the stress of final examinations by using an event-related potential (ERP) technique. A classic dot-probe paradigm was adopted with a test-related/test-unrelated threatening word and a neutral word pair as cues. Results showed attention bias and enhanced N200 amplitude toward test-related threat in high test-anxious individuals, whereas avoidance of test-related threat and decreased N200 amplitude were shown in low test-anxious individuals. Additionally, ERP data revealed the relatively enhanced LPP amplitude in low test-anxious participants compared with that in high test-anxious participants. No attentional bias toward test-unrelated threat was found. In conclusion, examination stress resulted in attentional bias and functional perturbations of a brain circuitry that reacted rapidly to test-related threat in high test-anxious individuals.
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