Electrophysiological Measures of Visual Working Memory in Social Anxiety

Yuan, Jing and Mao, Ningning and Chen, Rongrong and Zhang, Qin and Cui, Lixia (2020) Electrophysiological Measures of Visual Working Memory in Social Anxiety. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14. ISSN 1662-5153

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Abstract

Socially anxious individuals are very sensitive to threatening information in the environment, so visual working memory (VWM) is of great significance for them. However, the influence of social anxiety on VWM is unclear. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the VWM in individuals with social anxiety using electrophysiological techniques. Event-related potentials (ERPs) of high socially anxious (HSA) individuals and low socially anxious (LSA) individuals were recorded during a change-detection task with two memory conditions (two and four items). Electrophysiological results indicated that compared with the LSA individuals, the HSA individuals had significantly more active contralateral delay activity (CDA) in condition of memorizing four items. However, there was no significant difference between the HSA and LSA groups in response accuracy in the conditions memorizing two and four items. From the electrophysiological results, individuals with high social anxiety could maintain more information in VWM. However, maybe anxiety consumes the available cognitive resources to compensate for the supposed to be impaired effective performance, so that individuals with high social anxiety perform the same as individuals with low social anxiety in terms of behavioral outcomes.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: STM Digital Press > Biological Science
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Date Deposited: 18 Jan 2023 12:45
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2024 07:30
URI: http://publications.articalerewriter.com/id/eprint/28

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