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

ABSTRACT: 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-un

SUBMITTER: Hosseini K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10515949 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature