The Impact of Top-Down Prediction on Emotional Face Processing in Social Anxiety

Ran, Guangming; Chen, Xu

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01269

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“…Rapid detection and/or processing of stimuli should reflect decreased ERP latencies. Some researchers have found shorter ERP latencies for threatening stimuli relative to positive or neutral stimuli (Ran & Chen, 2017;Rossignol, Philippot, Bissot, Rigoulot, & Campanella, 2012;Van Strien, Eijlers, Franken, & Huijding, 2014). In the current study, H-FOP members may have responded to threats of pain stimulation with general hypervigilance that extended to neutral cues.…”

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“…Few studies have assessed ERP latencies to salient threats within anxious or phobic groups and consistent results have yet to emerge. To illustrate, shorter latencies for threatening stimuli relative to positive or neutral stimuli have been found in some high trait anxious groups (Bar-Haim, Lamy, & Glickman, 2005), but not others (Ran & Chen, 2017;Rossignol et al, 2012). Given the paucity of associated work from which to draw, researchers should devote more consideration to ERP latencies and moderating influences that account for potential contradictory findings in phobic or anxious samples.…”

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Effects of trait fear of pain on event‐related potentials during word cue presentations that signal potential pain

Zheng

Lyu

Jackson

2019

Eur J of Neuroscience

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People who are especially afraid of pain may display attention biases that increase their risk for developing chronic pain following an injury. However, specific neurophysiological mechanisms underlying associations between elevated trait fear of pain levels and environmental cues that signal potential pain experiences are not well understood. To address this gap, event‐related potentials (ERPs) were recorded among 39 high pain‐fearful (H‐FOP) and 36 low pain‐fearful (L‐FOP) adults exposed to potentially painful somatosensory stimulation cued by sensory pain words versus non‐painful stimulation cued by neutral words. H‐FOP group members displayed slower reaction times in judging somatosensory stimulation and rated stimulation to be more intense than L‐FOP group members did. H‐FOP group members also exhibited comparatively earlier peak latencies of P2 and N2 components during word cue presentations as well as weaker P3 amplitudes in processing non‐painful stimulation cued by sensory pain words. These findings suggested that, among the high trait pain‐fearful, exposure to word cues signaling potential pain results in the allocation of fewer cognitive resources toward processing somatosensory stimuli that are not actually painful.

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Section: Effects Of Fear Of Pain On Behavior and Erp Responsesmentioning

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Section: Effects Of Fear Of Pain On Behavior and Erp Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of trait fear of pain on event‐related potentials during word cue presentations that signal potential pain

Zheng

Lyu

Jackson

2019

Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…It has previously been argued that N170 reflects the analytical processing of different facial elements ( Peschard et al, 2013 ). There is evidence that N170 is larger (more negative amplitudes) for HSA individuals when they perform a task that measures the processing of emotional faces that are threatening ( Wieser et al, 2010 ; Ran and Chen, 2017 ). However, several other studies have failed to find the moderating effect of social anxiety on N170 ( Mühlberger et al, 2009 ; Li et al, 2017 ).…”

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“…In the study conducted by Mühlberger et al (2009) , the processing of emotion was implicit. However, participants were explicitly instructed to process emotion in the study conducted by Ran and Chen (2017) . More precisely, HSA and low social anxiety (LSA) participants attend to emotion in the explicit task, while they do not attend to emotion in the implicit task, which may affect their configural encoding of emotional faces.…”

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“…Previous studies that examined the effect of social anxiety on P200 demonstrated increased P200 amplitudes in response to angry faces in HSA individuals ( Rossignol et al, 2012 ). Recently, Ran and Chen (2017) reported that HSA participants exhibited more positive P200 amplitudes in response to angry faces when compared with happy faces.…”

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The Perception of Facial Emotional Change in Social Anxiety: An ERP Study

Zhang

Ran

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Social anxiety is one of the psychological symptoms that most commonly occur in social interaction. Although previous behavioral studies have investigated the neutral-angry facial emotion change in social anxiety, none of the previous studies have, however, directly investigated the angry-neutral facial emotional change. Furthermore, less is known about the neural correlates of the facial emotion changes in individuals with social anxiety. The main goal of the present study was to explore the perception of facial emotional changes in individuals with social anxiety, using high temporal resolution event-related potential techniques. Behaviorally, accuracy in the angry-neutral facial emotional change trail was lower than that in the neutral-neutral case. Neurally, we found that the N170 amplitudes in angry-neutral facial emotional change trial were larger than those in the neutral-neutral case for high social anxiety (HAS) participants, probably reflecting that they might engage in more analytical processing of different facial elements. Interestingly, HSA participants showed smaller P200 left hemisphere amplitudes in the angry-neutral facial emotional change trial when compared with the neutral-neutral case, which suggested that they might have difficulties in processing emotions when they encounter these facial emotional changes. Finally, the late positive potential amplitudes in the neutral-angry and angry-neutral facial emotional change trials were smaller than those in the neutral-neutral case, regardless of the social anxiety. These results suggest that social anxiety influences the facial emotional changes mainly at an earlier stage of processing.

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The effect of working memory load on selective attention to emotional faces for social anxiety individuals

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Cheng,

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PsyCh Journal

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Research has confirmed that individuals with social anxiety (SA) show an attentional bias towards threat‐related stimuli. However, the extent to which this attentional bias depends on top‐down cognitive control processes remains controversial. The present study investigated the effect of working memory (WM) load on selective attention to emotional faces in both high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) groups by manipulating WM load through the inclusion of forward counting in multiples of two (low load) or backward counting in multiples of seven (high load) within a modified flanker task. In the flanker task, emotional faces (angry, happy, or neutral faces) were used as targets and distractors. A total of 70 participants (34 HSA participants; 36 LSA participants) completed the flanker task in the laboratory. The results showed that the HSA individuals performed worse when responding to angry targets. Relative to LSA individuals, HSA individuals showed interference from angry distractors in the flanker task, resulting in significantly lower accuracy in identifying angry targets compared to happy targets. These results were unaffected by the manipulation of WM load. The findings imply HSA individuals have impaired attentional control, and that their threat‐related attentional bias relies more on the bottom‐up automatic attentional process.

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The Impact of Top-Down Prediction on Emotional Face Processing in Social Anxiety

Cited by 27 publications

References 58 publications

Effects of trait fear of pain on event‐related potentials during word cue presentations that signal potential pain

Effects of trait fear of pain on event‐related potentials during word cue presentations that signal potential pain

The Perception of Facial Emotional Change in Social Anxiety: An ERP Study

The effect of working memory load on selective attention to emotional faces for social anxiety individuals

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