Corrigendum to: Neural evidence for persistent attentional bias to threats in patients with social anxiety disorder

Kim, So Yeon; Shin, Jung Eun; Lee, Yoonji Irene; Kim, Haena; Jo, Hang Joon; Choi, Seong Hee

doi:10.1093/scan/nsy115

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“…Previous work has found that visually threatening stimuli are difficult to filter (Bar-Haim et al, 2007;Bishop, 2007;Cisler & Koster, 2010;Kim et al, 2018;Klumpp et al, 2018;Morriss et al, 2018;Raeder et al, 2018), and this deficit is enhanced in anxious individuals. The ability of threatening information to attract attention away from current tasks is sometimes advantageous.…”

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“…Another important consideration concerning our null CDA filtering cost results involves the methodological and conceptual differences between a temporally unpredictable external environmental threat, such as the threat of shock, and a direct threatening stimulus, such as an angry face. For example, many studies examining the influence of threatening stimuli impose threat associations with specific task materials (e.g., angry faces; Bar-Haim et al, 2007;Bishop, 2007;Cisler & Koster, 2010;Cox, Christensen, & Goodhew, 2018;Fox, Dutton, Yates, Georgiou, & Mouchlianitis, 2015;Kim et al, 2018;Klumpp et al, 2018;Morriss, McSorley, & Van Reekum, 2018;Raeder et al, 2018;Wieser, Hambach, & Weymar, 2018). WM tasks that have examined distracter filtering also measured the filtering of threat-related stimuli (Stout et al, 2013(Stout et al, , 2015(Stout et al, , 2017.…”

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State anxiety reduces working memory capacity but does not impact filtering cost for neutral distracters

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Current theories propose that anxiety adversely impacts working memory (WM) by restricting WM capacity and interfering with efficient filtering of task‐irrelevant information. The current study investigated the effect of shock‐induced state anxiety on WM capacity and the ability to filter task‐irrelevant neutral stimuli. We measured the contralateral delay activity (CDA), an event‐related potential that indexes the number of items maintained in WM, while participants completed a lateralized change detection task. The task included low and high WM loads, as well as a low load plus distracter condition. This design was used to assess WM capacity for low and high loads and investigate an individual's ability to filter neutral task‐irrelevant stimuli. Participants completed the task under two conditions, threat of shock and safe. We observed a reduced CDA in the threat compared to the safe condition that was specific for high memory load. However, we did not find any differences in CDA filtering cost between threat and safe conditions. In addition, we did not find any differences in behavioral performance between the threat and safe conditions. These findings suggest that being in an anxious state reduces the neural representation for large amounts of information in WM, but have little effect on the filtering of neutral distracters.

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