Electrocortical signatures of attentional bias toward subliminal and supraliminal socially negative words in social anxiety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research has demonstrated that abnormal attentional bias toward social threats at different processing stages is pivotal for the development and maintenance of social anxiety. However, the temporal property and the neural indicators of this bias are still open to clarification. The present study employed event-related potential (ERP) methodology to investigate the attentional bias toward social threats at the early preconscious and later controlled processing stages, along with associated electrocortical indicators.

Methods

Socially or non-socially negative words paired with neutral ones were presented subliminally and supraliminally in two dot-probe tasks, respectively. Twenty-six participants with high level of social anxiety (high SA) and twenty-four p

SUBMITTER: Gan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11865052 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature