No trait anxiety influences on early and late differential neuronal responses to aversively conditioned faces across three different tasks.

ABSTRACT: The human brain's ability to quickly detect dangerous stimuli is crucial in selecting appropriate responses to possible threats. Trait anxiety has been suggested to moderate these processes on certain processing stages. To dissociate such different information-processing stages, research using classical conditioning has begun to examine event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to fear-conditioned (CS +) faces. However, the impact of trait anxiety on ERPs to fear-conditioned faces depending on specific task conditions is unknown. In this preregistered study, we measured ERPs to faces paired with aversive loud screams (CS +) or neutral sounds (CS -) in a large sample (N = 80) under three different task conditions. Participants had to discriminate face-irrelevant perceptual information, th

SUBMITTER: Schindler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9458573 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature