Temporal dynamics of emotional face processing in social anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have demonstrated that emotional facial expressions influence attention and perception in individuals with social anxiety. However, the relative influence of positive versus negative expressions on distinct subprocesses of attention and perception remains unclear. This event-related potential (ERP) study investigates the temporal dynamics of electrophysiological responses to emotional faces in high (HSA; N = 56) or low (LSA; N = 47) social anxiety individuals using a dot-probe task. Four face pairs (angry-neutral, happy-neutral, angry-happy, and neutral-neutral) were presented to probe the influence of positive and negative expressions. While behavioural results showed no significant group differences in attention bias, ERP results showed a reduced N170 amplitude for the H

SUBMITTER: Feng YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12629449 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature