Reduced early fearful face processing during perceptual distraction in high trait anxious participants.
EEG/ERP
EPN
LPP
N170
P1
attention to emotion
feature-based attention
implicit emotion processing bias
trait anxiety
Journal
Psychophysiology
ISSN: 1540-5958
Titre abrégé: Psychophysiology
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0142657
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2021
06 2021
Historique:
revised:
27
01
2021
received:
30
09
2020
accepted:
12
03
2021
pubmed:
24
3
2021
medline:
3
2
2022
entrez:
23
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Fearful facial expressions are prioritized across different stages of information processing as reflected by early, mid-latency, and late components of event-related brain potentials (ERP). Trait anxiety has been proposed to modulate these responses, but it is yet unclear how such modulations depend on feature-based attention. In this preregistered study (N = 80), we investigated the effects of trait anxiety on ERP differences between fearful and neutral faces across three different tasks. Participants had to discriminate either the orientation of lines overlaid onto the faces, the gender of the face, or the emotional expression, thus increasing attention to emotionally relevant facial features across the tasks. Fearful versus neutral faces elicited increased P1 and N170 amplitudes across tasks and potentiated amplitudes when attention was directed to faces (early posterior negativity [EPN]) or the expression (EPN and late positive potential). Higher trait anxiety was related to smaller EPN differences between fearful and neutral faces during the perceptual discrimination task. This early relationship suggests reduced instead of amplified processing of fearful faces for high trait anxious participants under perceptual distraction.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e13819Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Psychophysiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Psychophysiological Research.
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