The effects of social anxiety on recognition memory for social threat words: An ERP study.
Biol Psychol
; 174: 108420, 2022 10.
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In this study, the effect of social anxiety on item recognition memory was examined by adopting a study-test paradigm. Participants with high and low social anxiety (31 HSA vs. 30 LSA) memorized neutral target and threat target (NT vs. TT) words while threat distracters were simultaneously presented. The behavioral results did not exhibit group differences in recognition performance. The event-related potentials (ERP) results showed that the HSA and LSA participants all did not exhibit significant old/new effects for neutral targets, while only the LSA participants exhibited significant old/new effects for threat targets. For the distracters, the HSA participants did not exhibit evident old/new effects under the NT and TT conditions; while LSA participants showed a reversed LPC old/new effect for the threat distracters under the NT condition. The old/new effects for threat targets were impaired in HSA participants but presented in LSA participants. These findings suggest that social anxiety modulates the effect of recognition memory for social threat words.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Atención
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Potenciales Evocados
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
Biol Psychol
Año:
2022
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Article
País de afiliación:
China
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Países Bajos