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Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA

BACKGROUND: Cognitive models indicated that social anxiety disorder (SAD) would be caused and maintained by a biased attentional processing of threatening information. This study investigates whether socially anxious children may present impaired attentional engagement and disengagement from negativ...

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Autores principales: Wauthia, Erika, D’Hondt, Fabien, Blekic, Wivine, Lefebvre, Laurent, Ris, Laurence, Rossignol, Mandy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8759697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35030177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261172
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author Wauthia, Erika
D’Hondt, Fabien
Blekic, Wivine
Lefebvre, Laurent
Ris, Laurence
Rossignol, Mandy
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D’Hondt, Fabien
Blekic, Wivine
Lefebvre, Laurent
Ris, Laurence
Rossignol, Mandy
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description BACKGROUND: Cognitive models indicated that social anxiety disorder (SAD) would be caused and maintained by a biased attentional processing of threatening information. This study investigates whether socially anxious children may present impaired attentional engagement and disengagement from negative emotional faces, as well as their underlying event-related potential responses. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Fifteen children with high levels of social anxiety (HSA; 9 boys; mean age = 9.99y; SD = 1.14) and twenty low socially anxious children (LSA; 16 boys; mean age = 10.47y; SD = 1.17) participated in a spatial cueing task in which they had to detect targets following neutral/disgusted faces in a valid or invalid location. No group effect was reported on reaction times [p>.05]. However, electrophysiological data showed lower P3a amplitude in HSA children compared with the LSA group when processing facial stimuli. They also reported larger N2 amplitudes for valid-disgusted targets and a larger P3a amplitude for the invalid-disgusted ones. CONCLUSION: In terms of electrophysiological data, our results validated, the hypothesis of attentional disengagement difficulties in SAD children. We also confirm the idea that high levels of social anxiety are associated with cognitive control impairments and have a greater impact on the processing efficiency than on the performance effectiveness.
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spelling pubmed-87596972022-01-15 Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA Wauthia, Erika D’Hondt, Fabien Blekic, Wivine Lefebvre, Laurent Ris, Laurence Rossignol, Mandy PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Cognitive models indicated that social anxiety disorder (SAD) would be caused and maintained by a biased attentional processing of threatening information. This study investigates whether socially anxious children may present impaired attentional engagement and disengagement from negative emotional faces, as well as their underlying event-related potential responses. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Fifteen children with high levels of social anxiety (HSA; 9 boys; mean age = 9.99y; SD = 1.14) and twenty low socially anxious children (LSA; 16 boys; mean age = 10.47y; SD = 1.17) participated in a spatial cueing task in which they had to detect targets following neutral/disgusted faces in a valid or invalid location. No group effect was reported on reaction times [p>.05]. However, electrophysiological data showed lower P3a amplitude in HSA children compared with the LSA group when processing facial stimuli. They also reported larger N2 amplitudes for valid-disgusted targets and a larger P3a amplitude for the invalid-disgusted ones. CONCLUSION: In terms of electrophysiological data, our results validated, the hypothesis of attentional disengagement difficulties in SAD children. We also confirm the idea that high levels of social anxiety are associated with cognitive control impairments and have a greater impact on the processing efficiency than on the performance effectiveness. Public Library of Science 2022-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8759697/ /pubmed/35030177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261172 Text en © 2022 Wauthia et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Wauthia, Erika
D’Hondt, Fabien
Blekic, Wivine
Lefebvre, Laurent
Ris, Laurence
Rossignol, Mandy
Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA
title Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA
title_full Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA
title_fullStr Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA
title_full_unstemmed Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA
title_short Neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: Evidence from temporal-spatial PCA
title_sort neural responses associated with attentional engagement and disengagement from threat in high socially anxious children: evidence from temporal-spatial pca
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8759697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35030177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261172
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