Reduced recollective memory about negative items in high trait anxiety individuals: An ERP study

Inaba, Midori; Ohira, Hideki

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.08.001

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“…This result, together with the result of reversed hit item w/source old/new effects in the fearful context in the 700–1200 ms time windows, implied that the high-trait-anxiety participants minimized an explicit recollection of fearful information during source retrieval monitoring. Our findings were consistent with prior studies, one of which revealed that the slow waves at the left parietal area for anxious individuals were smaller for negative stimuli compared to other types of stimuli ( Inaba and Ohira, 2009 ). A possibility was the result of problems in attention among high-trait- anxiety participants ( Williams et al, 1997 ).…”

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Electrophysiological Correlates of Emotional Source Memory in High-Trait-Anxiety Individuals

Cui

Shi

et al. 2016

Front. Psychol.

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The interaction between recognition memory and emotion has become a research hotspot in recent years. Dual process theory posits that familiarity and recollection are two separate processes contributing to recognition memory, but further experimental evidence is needed. The present study explored the emotional context effects on successful and unsuccessful source retrieval amongst 15 high-trait-anxiety college students by using event-related potentials (ERPs) measurement. During study, a happy, fearful, or neutral face picture first was displayed, then a Chinese word was superimposed centrally on the picture and subjects were asked to remember the word and the corresponding type of picture. During the test participants were instructed to press one of four buttons to indicate whether the displayed word was an old or new word. And then, for the old word, indicate whether it had been shown with a fearful, happy, or neutral face during the study. ERPs were generally more positive for remembered words than for new words and the ERP difference was termed as an old/new effect. It was found that, for successful source retrieval (it meant both the item and the source were remembered accurately) between 500 and 700 ms (corresponding to a late positive component, LPC), there were significant old/new effects in all contexts. However, for unsuccessful source retrieval (it meant the correct recognition of old items matched with incorrect source attribution), there were no significant old/new effects in happy and neutral contexts, though significant old/new effects were observed in the fearful context. Between 700 and 1200 ms (corresponding to a late slow wave, LSW), there were significant old/new effects for successful source retrieval in happy and neutral contexts. However, in the fearful context, the old/new effects were reversed, ERPs were more negative for successful source retrieval compared to correct rejections. Moreover, there were significant emotion effects for successful source retrieval at this time window. Further analysis showed ERPs of old items were more negative in fearful context than in neutral context. The results showed that early unsuccessful fearful source retrieval processes (related to familiarity) were enhanced, but late successful fearful source retrieval processes during source retrieval monitoring (related to recollection) were weakened. This provided preliminary evidence for the dual processing theory.

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Electrophysiological Correlates of Emotional Source Memory in High-Trait-Anxiety Individuals

Cui

Shi

et al. 2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…It is well established in humans that affective state can influence many aspects of cognition (Williams et al 1997;Haselton et al 2009). Affectively induced cognitive biases have been described in relation to the information attended to, how it is interpreted and how it is remembered (Leppanen 2006;Bar-Haim et al 2007;Coen et al 2009;Inaba & Ohira 2009). For example, socially anxious people interpret the emotional valence (strength of positivity or negativity) of ambiguous statements (e.g.…”

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Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats

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“…Pauli, Dengler, and Wiedemann (2005) evaluated people with a panic disorder ( n = 16) compared to control subjects ( n = 16), observing that those in the former group were able to recognize words involving threats more accurately than those in the control group. In contrast, Inaba and Ohira (2009) observed that subjects with high level trait anxiety ( n = 18) recollected significantly less negative words compared to controls with low trait anxiety ( n = 20). Similar results were observed by Lavoie, Sauvé, Morand-Beaulieu, Charron, and O’Connor (2014), after evaluating 29 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder 1 in a recognition task of negative pictures compared to 15 healthy controls.…”

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Evaluating the Association of High Trait Anxiety With a Bias in Familiarity-Based Recognition of Emotional Stimuli

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Carboni

Roche

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychophysiology

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Abstract. In the past decades the role of cognitive biases as maintaining factors of anxiety has been widely researched. This theoretical framework assumes that vulnerability self-referential thoughts promote a hyper-vigilant mode of processing environmental stimuli. In this mode, threatening information increases attentional capture and therefore encoding and retrieval of such stimuli is enhanced. Although this attentional bias has been confirmed, the evidence concerning the memory bias is contradictory. Our hypothesis is that the bias in memory is expressed through the pattern of recognition. Particularly, the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of anxiety with familiarity, a deficient form of recognition which consists only in the identification of the item without retrieval of contextual information. Two groups of 17 participants with low and high anxiety levels performed an experimental task of visual recognition memory, using neutral, positive, and negative pictures. The experiment had two test phases, with a 24-hour interval, to evaluate possible effects of consolidation. The pattern of recognition was measured, behaviorally (through an independent Remember/Know paradigm) and through event-related potentials (ERP). Participants with higher levels of anxiety developed a bias in recognition of arousing stimuli (positive and negative) compared with the control group. This bias was observed behaviorally through an increase of familiarity-based recognition, and was associated with a positive modulation of a right parietal late positive component (LPC) at approximately 600 ms of latency. Participants with higher levels of anxiety are capable of recognizing arousing stimuli but lack efficiency in retrieving past contextual information compared to lower level anxiety participants. A recognition bias can be the first step in cognitive distortions that generate anxiety. This is, to our knowledge, the first study to explore the association of anxiety with familiarity-based recognition, using an independent Remember/Know paradigm combined with electrophysiological data. Further studies with bigger samples and more recording channels are needed to confirm the electrophysiological findings.

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Reduced recollective memory about negative items in high trait anxiety individuals: An ERP study

Cited by 9 publications

References 65 publications

Electrophysiological Correlates of Emotional Source Memory in High-Trait-Anxiety Individuals

Electrophysiological Correlates of Emotional Source Memory in High-Trait-Anxiety Individuals

Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats

Evaluating the Association of High Trait Anxiety With a Bias in Familiarity-Based Recognition of Emotional Stimuli

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