Evidence for specificity of the impact of punishment on error-related brain activity in high versus low trait anxious individuals

Meyer, Alexandria; Gawłowska, Magda

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.08.001

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“…Along similar lines, we have shown that the ERN can be increased in the lab by using a loud noise or shock as punishment for error commission, and that these effects persist after punishment is removed (Meyer & Gawlowska 2017, Riesel et al 2012. We have used these punishment-related effects to develop and test a learning-based model of ERNs and anxiety.…”

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The Utility of Event-Related Potentials in Clinical Psychology

Hajcak

Klawohn

Meyer

2019

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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Event-related potentials (ERPs) are direct measures of brain activity that can be leveraged for clinically meaningful research. They can relate robustly both to continuous measures of individual difference and to categorical diagnoses in ways that clarify similarities and distinctions between apparently related disorders and traits. ERPs can be linked to genetic risk, can act as moderators of developmental trajectories and responses to stress, and can be leveraged to identify those at greater risk for psychopathology, especially when used in combination with other neural and self-report measures. ERPs can inform models of the development of, and risk for, psychopathology. Finally, ERPs can be used as targets for existing and novel interventions and prevention efforts. We provide concrete examples for each of these possibilities by focusing on programmatic research on the error-related negativity and anxiety, and thus show that ERPs are poised to make greater contributions toward the identification, prediction, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders.

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confidence: 81%

The Utility of Event-Related Potentials in Clinical Psychology

Hajcak

Klawohn

Meyer

2019

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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“…Indeed, an unpredictable context is associated with decreased ability to anticipate future consequences, thereby rendering errors more dangerous. Previous research has shown that the ERN can be modulated by contextual manipulations that alter the threat value of errors, such as when errors are punished (Meyer & Gawlowska, 2017; Riesel et al, 2012), performance is evaluated (Barker et al, 2015), or errors are more ‘costly’ (Hajcak et al, 2005). …”

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“…1 These findings indicate that unpredictable tones made the differentiation between error and correct trials evident earlier, in addition to larger. Notably, Meyer and Gawlowska (2017) recently found that individuals with high trait anxiety demonstrate an early ERN (i.e. 50 ms before the response) when errors were punished.…”

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“…The magnitude of the ERN has been shown to be sensitive to the relative value of errors. For example, the ERN is enhanced when performance is evaluated and errors are more costly (Barker, Troller-Renfree, Pine, & Fox, 2015; Hajcak, Moser, Yeung, & Simons, 2005), as well as when errors are punished (Meyer & Gawlowska, 2017; Riesel, Weinberg, Endrass, Kathmann, & Hajcak, 2012). As a result, variation in the ERN is posited to reflect reactivity to the potential significance, or threat value, of errors (Weinberg, Riesel, & Hajcak, 2012).…”

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Unpredictability increases the error-related negativity in children and adolescents

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The error-related negativity (ERN) is a response-locked component in the event-related potential observed as a negative deflection 50–100 ms following the commission of an error. An unpredictable context has been shown to potentiate amygdala activity, attentional bias toward threat, and the ERN in adults. However, it is unclear whether the impact of unpredictability on the ERN is also observed in children and adolescents. In a sample of 32 9–17 year-old participants, we examined the influence of a task-irrelevant unpredictable context on neural response to errors. Participants completed a flanker task designed to elicit the ERN, while simultaneously being exposed to task-irrelevant tone sequences with either predictable or unpredictable timing. Unpredictable tones were rated as more anxiety provoking compared to the predictable tones. Fewer errors were made during unpredictable relative to predictable tones. Moreover, the ERN—but not the correct response negativity (CRN) or stimulus-locked N200—was potentiated during the unpredictable relative to predictable tones. The current study replicates and extends previous findings by demonstrating that an unpredictable context can increase task performance and selectively potentiate the ERN in children and adolescents. ERN magnitude can be modulated by environmental factors suggesting enhanced error processing in unpredictable contexts.

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“…A large body of literature used punishment of the error commission as an exteroceptive threat typically resulting in increased ERN amplitudes (Endrass et al, 2010;Potts, 2011;Riesel, Weinberg, Endrass, Kathmann, & Hajcak, 2012). Interestingly, Meyer and Gawlowska (2017) found no general effect of error punishment on the ERN regardless of whether | 3 of 14 SUCEC et al…”

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The impact of dyspnea and threat of dyspnea on error processing

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Dyspnea (breathlessness) is a threatening and aversive bodily sensation and a major symptom of various diseases. It has been suggested to impair several aspects of functioning in affected patients, but experimental proof for this assumption is widely absent. Error processing is an important domain of functioning and has intensively been studied using electrophysiological measures. Specifically, the error-related negativity (ERN) has been suggested to reflect early performance monitoring and error detection, while the error positivity (Pe) has been linked to subsequent error awareness. So far, little is known about the effects of anticipated or perceived dyspnea on error processing. Therefore, in 49 healthy participants, we studied the effects of experimentally induced dyspnea and threat of dyspnea on the ERN/Pe and behavioral task performance. Participants performed the arrowhead version of the flanker task during three experimental conditions: an unloaded baseline condition, a dyspnea condition, and a threat of dyspnea condition. Dyspnea was induced by breathing through inspiratory resistive loads, while high-density EEG was continuously measured. No differences in task performance (reaction times, error rates) and ERN mean amplitudes were found between conditions. However, mean amplitudes for the Pe differed between conditions with smaller Pe amplitudes during threat of dyspnea compared to baseline and dyspnea conditions, with the latter two conditions showing no difference. These results may suggest that threat of dyspnea, but not dyspnea itself, reduces error awareness, while both seem to have no impact on early error processing and related behavioral performance.

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Evidence for specificity of the impact of punishment on error-related brain activity in high versus low trait anxious individuals

Cited by 43 publications

References 49 publications

The Utility of Event-Related Potentials in Clinical Psychology

The Utility of Event-Related Potentials in Clinical Psychology

Unpredictability increases the error-related negativity in children and adolescents

The impact of dyspnea and threat of dyspnea on error processing

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