Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years

Cole, Sally; Mehra, Lushna M.; Cibrian, Enrique; Cummings, Elise M; Nelson, Brady D.; Hajcak, Greg; Meyer, Alexandria

doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101252

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“…Extensive work demonstrates EEG-based measures of error monitoring-recorded over MFC-are linked to anxiety [37]- [40], including SA [41]- [45]. For high SA individuals, error monitoring is particularly increased within social situations [46]- [48].…”

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Towards a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety

Hosseini,

Pettit,

Soto

et al. 2023

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Cognitive models state social anxiety (SA) involves biased cognitive processing that impacts what is learned and remembered within social situations, leading to the maintenance of SA. Neuroscience work links SA to enhanced error monitoring, reflected in error-related neural responses arising from mediofrontal cortex (MFC). Yet, the role of error monitoring in SA remains unclear, as it is unknown whether error monitoring can drive changes in memory, biasing what is learned or remembered about social situations. Thus, we developed a novel paradigm to investigate the role of error-related MFC theta oscillations (associated with error monitoring) and memory biases in SA. EEG was collected while participants completed a novel Face-Flanker task, involving presentation of task-unrelated, trial-unique faces behind target/flanker arrows on each trial. A subsequent incidental memory assessment evaluated memory biases for error events. Severity of SA symptoms were associated with greater error-related theta synchrony over MFC, as well as between MFC and sensory cortex. SA was positively associated with memory biases for error events. Consistent with a mechanistic role in biased cognitive processing, greater error-related MFC-sensory theta synchrony during the Face-Flanker predicted subsequent memory biases for error events. Our findings suggest high SA individuals exhibit memory biases for error events, and that this behavioral phenomenon may be driven by error-related MFC-sensory theta synchrony associated with error monitoring. Moreover, results demonstrate the potential of a novel paradigm to elucidate mechanisms underlying relations between error monitoring and SA.

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Towards a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety

Hosseini,

Pettit,

Soto

et al. 2023

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The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth

Mehra,

Hajcak,

Meyer

2024

Biological Psychology

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Adversity and error‐monitoring: Effects of emotional context

Compton,

Shudrenko,

et al. 2024

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This study tested whether self‐reports of childhood adversity would predict altered error processing under emotional versus non‐emotional task conditions. N = 99 undergraduates completed two selective attention tasks, a traditional color‐word Stroop task and a modified task using emotional words, while EEG was recorded. Participants also completed self‐report measures of adverse and positive childhood experiences, executive functioning, depression, current stress, and emotion regulation. Reports of adversity were robustly correlated with self‐reported challenges in executive functioning, even when controlling for self‐reported depression and stress, but adversity was not correlated with task performance. With regard to neural markers of error processing, adversity predicted an enhanced error‐related negativity and blunted error‐positivity, but only during the emotion‐word blocks of the task. Moreover, error‐related changes in alpha oscillations were predicted by adversity, in a pattern that suggested less error responsiveness in alpha patterns during the emotion block, compared to the color block, among participants with higher adversity. Overall, results indicate alterations in error monitoring associated with adversity, such that in an emotional context, initial error detection is enhanced and sustained error processing is blunted, even in the absence of overt performance changes.

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Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years

Cited by 5 publications

References 93 publications

Towards a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety

Towards a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety

The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth

Adversity and error‐monitoring: Effects of emotional context

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