Relations between Behavioral Inhibition, Cognitive Control, and Anxiety: Novel Insights Provided by Parsing Subdomains of Cognitive Control

Buzzell, George A.; Troller‐Renfree, Sonya V.; Morales, Santiago

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98077-5_10

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“…The present findings support an emerging view of BI’s neurophysiological profile (Buzzell et al, 2018; Fox et al, under review; Henderson et al, 2015; Henderson & Wilson, 2017). According to this view, although BI is associated with heightened detection of salient stimuli (e.g., threatening faces, novel auditory tones), some children with BI learn to moderate their responses to novelty or unfamiliarity over time via increased proactive control.…”

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Behavioral Inhibition and Dual Mechanisms of Anxiety Risk: Disentangling Neural Correlates of Proactive and Reactive Control

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Troller‐Renfree

Buzzell

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Background: Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament style characterized by heightened reactivity and negative affect in response to novel people and situations, and it is a strong predictor of anxiety problems later in life. However, not all BI children develop anxiety problems and mounting evidence suggests that how one manages their cognitive resources (cognitive control) influences anxiety risk. The present study tests whether more (proactive control) or less (reactive control) planful cognitive strategies moderate relations between BI and anxiety. Methods: Participants included 144 adolescents (55.9% female) whose temperament was assessed during toddlerhood. In adolescence (mean age = 15.4 years), participants completed an AX Continuous Performance Test while EEG was recorded in order to disentangle neural activity related to proactive (cue-locked P3b) and reactive (probe-locked N2) control. Results: BI was associated with greater total anxiety scores only among adolescents with smaller ΔP3bs and larger ΔN2s - a pattern consistent with decreased reliance on proactive strategies and increased reliance on reactive strategies. Additionally, a larger ΔP3b was associated with greater total anxiety scores. Conclusions: BI relates to risk for anxiety specifically among adolescents who rely less on proactive strategies and more on reactive control strategies. Results further suggest that proactive control differentiates a BI-related etiological pathway to anxiety from a more general pathway to anxiety occurring regardless of BI level. Thus, developmental context (i.e., temperament) moderates the association between anxiety and proactive control. The present study is the first to characterize how proactive and reactive control uniquely relate to pathways toward anxiety risk.

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Behavioral Inhibition and Dual Mechanisms of Anxiety Risk: Disentangling Neural Correlates of Proactive and Reactive Control

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Buzzell

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“…This opens the possibility of intervention or prevention efforts that could target cognitive control strategy to promote planful and proactive strategies while reducing automatic and reactive control strategies ( 3 ). Our findings also highlight the importance of distinguishing detection from control processes, rather than considering cognitive control a unitary construct ( 7 , 21 ). This distinction has important clinical consequences because intervention or prevention strategies will likely differ whether detection or control is targeted.…”

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“…Proactive control involves the early selection of goal-relevant information to prepare for future events, whereas reactive control deploys on an as-needed basis toward recently encountered events. Research connects anxiety to reduced proactive and increased reactive control ( 5 , 20 , 21 ). For instance, training highly anxious individuals to use a proactive control strategy lowers aspects of anxiety ( 3 ).…”

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Neurocognitive Profiles in Adolescence Predict Subsequent Anxiety Trajectories During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Morales

Zeytinoglu

Buzzell

et al. 2022

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

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“…Temperamental shyness was only related to higher levels of social anxiety for children who showed relatively high levels of neurocognitive control in response to the social stressor. These findings can be interpreted in the context of the risk potentiation model of control which posits that cognitive control may serve as a risk factor for maladaptive socioemotional outcomes among children with reactive temperaments such as shyness (Buzzell et al., 2018; Henderson & Wilson, 2017; Henderson et al., 2015). Similar to a previous study examining temperamental shyness and neurocognitive control in middle childhood (Henderson, 2010), we did not find that temperamental shyness was directly related to levels of neurocognitive control.…”

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Temperamental Shyness, Frontal EEG Theta/Beta Ratio, and Social Anxiety in Children

Poole

Hassan

2021

Child Development

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The authors examined how children's frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) theta/beta ratio-an index of neurocognitive control-changed from baseline to a social stressor, and whether these EEG changes moderated the relation between temperament and anxiety. Children (N = 152; M age = 7.82 years, 52% male, 81% White) had their EEG recorded during a baseline and speech anticipation condition. Children's frontal theta/beta ratio decreased from baseline to speech anticipation, and this baseline-to-task change moderated the relation between temperamental shyness and social anxiety. Temperamental shyness was related to higher state and trait social anxiety only among children with large baseline-to-task decreases in theta/beta ratio. Findings are consistent with theoretical models hypothesizing that temperamentally shy children with heightened neurocognitive control may be at greater risk for anxiety.

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Relations between Behavioral Inhibition, Cognitive Control, and Anxiety: Novel Insights Provided by Parsing Subdomains of Cognitive Control

Cited by 13 publications

References 63 publications

Behavioral Inhibition and Dual Mechanisms of Anxiety Risk: Disentangling Neural Correlates of Proactive and Reactive Control

Behavioral Inhibition and Dual Mechanisms of Anxiety Risk: Disentangling Neural Correlates of Proactive and Reactive Control

Neurocognitive Profiles in Adolescence Predict Subsequent Anxiety Trajectories During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Temperamental Shyness, Frontal EEG Theta/Beta Ratio, and Social Anxiety in Children

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