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Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control
Trait anxiety is associated with deficits in attentional control, particularly in the ability to inhibit prepotent responses. Here, we investigated this effect while varying the level of cognitive load in a modified antisaccade task that employed emotional facial expressions (neutral, happy, and ang...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23717273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00188 |
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author | Berggren, Nick Richards, Anne Taylor, Joseph Derakshan, Nazanin |
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description | Trait anxiety is associated with deficits in attentional control, particularly in the ability to inhibit prepotent responses. Here, we investigated this effect while varying the level of cognitive load in a modified antisaccade task that employed emotional facial expressions (neutral, happy, and angry) as targets. Load was manipulated using a secondary auditory task requiring recognition of tones (low load), or recognition of specific tone pitch (high load). Results showed that load increased antisaccade latencies on trials where gaze toward face stimuli should be inhibited. This effect was exacerbated for high anxious individuals. Emotional expression also modulated task performance on antisaccade trials for both high and low anxious participants under low cognitive load, but did not influence performance under high load. Collectively, results (1) suggest that individuals reporting high levels of anxiety are particularly vulnerable to the effects of cognitive load on inhibition, and (2) support recent evidence that loading cognitive processes can reduce emotional influences on attention and cognition. |
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spelling | pubmed-36522912013-05-28 Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control Berggren, Nick Richards, Anne Taylor, Joseph Derakshan, Nazanin Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Trait anxiety is associated with deficits in attentional control, particularly in the ability to inhibit prepotent responses. Here, we investigated this effect while varying the level of cognitive load in a modified antisaccade task that employed emotional facial expressions (neutral, happy, and angry) as targets. Load was manipulated using a secondary auditory task requiring recognition of tones (low load), or recognition of specific tone pitch (high load). Results showed that load increased antisaccade latencies on trials where gaze toward face stimuli should be inhibited. This effect was exacerbated for high anxious individuals. Emotional expression also modulated task performance on antisaccade trials for both high and low anxious participants under low cognitive load, but did not influence performance under high load. Collectively, results (1) suggest that individuals reporting high levels of anxiety are particularly vulnerable to the effects of cognitive load on inhibition, and (2) support recent evidence that loading cognitive processes can reduce emotional influences on attention and cognition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3652291/ /pubmed/23717273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00188 Text en Copyright © 2013 Berggren, Richards, Taylor and Derakshan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Berggren, Nick Richards, Anne Taylor, Joseph Derakshan, Nazanin Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
title | Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
title_full | Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
title_fullStr | Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
title_full_unstemmed | Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
title_short | Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
title_sort | affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23717273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00188 |
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