Individual differences in perceptual sensitivity and response bias in anxiety: Evidence from emotional faces

Frenkel, Tahl I.; Lamy, Dominique; Algom, Daniel; Bar‐Haim, Yair

doi:10.1080/02699930802076893

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“…In particular, it remains unclear when attention training procedures are effective and translate into therapeutic benefit detected by clinicians. Here, healthy comparison youth exhibited relatively stable happy bias (Frenkel, Lamy et al 2009), evidenced by correlations across visits; however, threat biases were uncorrelated. This result raises questions about stability of the threat bias.…”

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Training-associated changes and stability of attention bias in youth: Implications for Attention Bias Modification Treatment for pediatric anxiety

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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT), an emerging treatment for anxiety disorders, is thought to modify underlying, stable patterns of attention. Therefore, ABMT research should take into account the impact of attention bias stability on attention training response, especially in pediatric populations. ABMT research typically relies on the dot-probe task, where individuals detect a probe following an emotional-neutral stimulus pair. The current research presents two dot-probe experiments relevant to ABMT and attention-bias stability. In Experiment 1, anxious youth receiving 8-weeks of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) were randomly assigned to ABMT that trains attention towards happy faces (n=18) or placebo (n=18). Two additional comparison groups, anxious youth receiving only CBT (n=17) and healthy comparison youth (n=16), were studied. Active attention training towards happy faces did not augment clinician-rated response to CBT; however, individuals receiving training exhibited reductions on self-report measures of anxiety earlier than individuals receiving CBT only. In Experiment 2, healthy youth (n=12) completed a dot-probe task twice while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Intra class-correlation demonstrated stability of neural activation in response to attention bias in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and amygdala. Together, these two studies investigate the ways in which attention-bias stability may impact future work on ABMT.

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Training-associated changes and stability of attention bias in youth: Implications for Attention Bias Modification Treatment for pediatric anxiety

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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…In this sample, the non-inhibited adolescents displayed a large attention bias toward happy faces. Recent work shows that biases to happy stimuli may aid emotion regulation under stress (Frenkel et al, 2008; Wadlinger & Isaacowitz, 2008), suggesting that this may help protect children from negative developmental outcomes. A bias toward positive affect, rather than simply the absence of a threat bias, may act as an active mechanism for buffering early dispositions towards maladaptive social outcomes.…”

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“…In adolescence, we assessed their attention biases to both threatening (angry faces) and positive (happy faces) stimuli. Attention patterns to positive stimuli was assessed because recent work suggests that both behavioral inhibition and anxiety may be linked to perturbations in processing positive and negative stimuli (Bar-Haim et al, in press; Frenkel, Lamy, Algom, & Bar-Haim, 2008; Guyer et al, 2006; Pérez-Edgar et al, 2007). …”

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Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal.

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Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament characterized in young children by a heightened sensitivity to novelty, social withdrawal, and anxious behaviors. For many children, these social difficulties dissipate over time. For others, patterns of social withdrawal continue into adolescence. Over time, attention biases to threat may influence the stability of behavioral inhibition and its association with social withdrawal, ultimately modulating the risk for anxiety disorders in BI children. However, we know relatively little about the cognitive processes that accompany BI and shape later socio-emotional functioning. We examined the relations among BI in childhood, attention biases to threat in adolescence, and adolescent social withdrawal in a longitudinal study (N=126, Mean age=15 years). As has been reported in anxious adults, adolescents who were behaviorally inhibited as toddlers and young children showed heightened attention bias to threat. In addition, attention bias to threat moderated the relation between childhood BI and adolescent social withdrawal.

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“…Indeed, a sense of “responsibility,” or self-agency, in a context of uncertainty (probabilistic outcomes) drives the neural system underlying appetitive motivation (i.e., nucleus accumbens) more strongly in temperamentally inhibited than noninhibited adolescents. One important next step will be to determine how the reward system interacts with fear circuitry among subjects characterized by behavioral inhibition and elevated anxiety (Frenkel, Lamy, Algom, & Bar-Haim, 2008). A further goal will be to examine behavioral inhibition and its underlying neural circuitry across development.…”

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Neural Correlates of Reward Processing in Adolescents With a History of Inhibited Temperament

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Functional imaging data were acquired during performance of a reward-contingency task in a unique cohort of adolescents (ages 14-18 years) who were characterized since infancy on measures of temperamental behavioral inhibition. Neural activation was examined in striatal structures (nucleus accumbens, putamen, caudate) with a known role in facilitating response to salient reward-related cues. Adolescents with a history of behavioral inhibition, relative to noninhibited adolescents, showed increased activation in the nucleus accumbens when they believed their selection of an action would affect reward outcome. Neural responses did not differ between the two groups when participants made a prespecified response that they knew would result in reward or when they produced random motor responses that they knew would not be rewarded. These results link inhibited temperament and perturbed neural responses to rewardcontingency cues.

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Individual differences in perceptual sensitivity and response bias in anxiety: Evidence from emotional faces

Cited by 39 publications

References 24 publications

Training-associated changes and stability of attention bias in youth: Implications for Attention Bias Modification Treatment for pediatric anxiety

Training-associated changes and stability of attention bias in youth: Implications for Attention Bias Modification Treatment for pediatric anxiety

Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal.

Neural Correlates of Reward Processing in Adolescents With a History of Inhibited Temperament

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