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Assessing cognitive flexibility in anorexia nervosa using eye tracking: A registered report

OBJECTIVE: Cognitive flexibility research in anorexia nervosa (AN) has primarily focused on group differences between clinical and control participants, but research in the general population utilizing the mixed pro‐ anti‐saccade flexibility task has demonstrated individual differences in trait anxi...

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Autores principales: Dann, Kelly M., Veldre, Aaron, Hay, Phillipa, Touyz, Stephen, Andrews, Sally
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35841161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.23779
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Veldre, Aaron
Hay, Phillipa
Touyz, Stephen
Andrews, Sally
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description OBJECTIVE: Cognitive flexibility research in anorexia nervosa (AN) has primarily focused on group differences between clinical and control participants, but research in the general population utilizing the mixed pro‐ anti‐saccade flexibility task has demonstrated individual differences in trait anxiety are a determinant of switching performance, and switching impairments are more pronounced for keypress than saccadic (eye‐movement) responses. The aim of the current research is to explore trait anxiety and differences in saccadic and keypress responding as potential determinants of performance on flexibility tasks in AN. METHOD: We will compare performance on the mixed pro‐ anti‐saccade paradigm between female adult participants with a current diagnosis of AN and matched control participants, observing both saccadic and keypress responses while controlling for trait anxiety (State ‐ Trait Anxiety Inventory) and spatial working memory (Corsi Block Tapping Test). Associations with eating disorder‐related symptoms (Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire), flexibility in everyday life (Eating Disorder Flexibility Index), and the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire will also be assessed. RESULTS: Data which controls for individual differences in trait anxiety and assesses flexibility at both the task‐ and response‐set level may be used to more accurately understand differences in performance on cognitive flexibility tasks by participants with AN. DISCUSSION: Clarifying the effects of trait anxiety on flexibility, and differences between task‐ and response‐set switching may advance our understanding of how cognitive flexibility relates to flexibility in everyday life and improve translation to therapeutic approaches. PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: This research will compare performance on a flexibility task between participants with anorexia nervosa (AN) and controls while observing their eye‐movements to examine whether trait anxiety and type of response (eye‐movement and keypress) are associated with performance. This data may improve our understanding of why participants with AN perform more poorly on cognitive flexibility tasks, and how poor cognitive flexibility relates to eating disorder‐related issues with flexibility in everyday life.
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spelling pubmed-97960722022-12-28 Assessing cognitive flexibility in anorexia nervosa using eye tracking: A registered report Dann, Kelly M. Veldre, Aaron Hay, Phillipa Touyz, Stephen Andrews, Sally Int J Eat Disord Registered Report Stage 1 OBJECTIVE: Cognitive flexibility research in anorexia nervosa (AN) has primarily focused on group differences between clinical and control participants, but research in the general population utilizing the mixed pro‐ anti‐saccade flexibility task has demonstrated individual differences in trait anxiety are a determinant of switching performance, and switching impairments are more pronounced for keypress than saccadic (eye‐movement) responses. The aim of the current research is to explore trait anxiety and differences in saccadic and keypress responding as potential determinants of performance on flexibility tasks in AN. METHOD: We will compare performance on the mixed pro‐ anti‐saccade paradigm between female adult participants with a current diagnosis of AN and matched control participants, observing both saccadic and keypress responses while controlling for trait anxiety (State ‐ Trait Anxiety Inventory) and spatial working memory (Corsi Block Tapping Test). Associations with eating disorder‐related symptoms (Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire), flexibility in everyday life (Eating Disorder Flexibility Index), and the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire will also be assessed. RESULTS: Data which controls for individual differences in trait anxiety and assesses flexibility at both the task‐ and response‐set level may be used to more accurately understand differences in performance on cognitive flexibility tasks by participants with AN. DISCUSSION: Clarifying the effects of trait anxiety on flexibility, and differences between task‐ and response‐set switching may advance our understanding of how cognitive flexibility relates to flexibility in everyday life and improve translation to therapeutic approaches. PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: This research will compare performance on a flexibility task between participants with anorexia nervosa (AN) and controls while observing their eye‐movements to examine whether trait anxiety and type of response (eye‐movement and keypress) are associated with performance. This data may improve our understanding of why participants with AN perform more poorly on cognitive flexibility tasks, and how poor cognitive flexibility relates to eating disorder‐related issues with flexibility in everyday life. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022-07-15 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9796072/ /pubmed/35841161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.23779 Text en © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Eating Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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