Behavioural inhibition and early neural processing of happy and angry faces interact to predict anxiety: a longitudinal ERP study.

ABSTRACT: Limited prospective research has examined whether attention biases to emotion moderate associations between Behavioural Inhibition (BI) and anxiety in preschool-aged children. Furthermore, there has been an over-reliance on behavioral measures in previous studies. Accordingly, we assessed anxiety in a sample of preschool-aged children (3-4 years) at baseline, and again approximately 6 and 11 months later, after they started school. At baseline, children completed an assessment of BI and an EEG task where they were presented with angry, happy, and neutral faces. EEG analyses focused on ERPs (P1, P2, N2) associated with specific stages of attention allocation. Interactions between BI and emotion bias (ERP amplitude for emotional versus neutral faces) were found for N2 and P1. For N2, BI was

SUBMITTER: Rayson H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9929676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature