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Am I really seeing what’s around me? An ERP study on social anxiety under speech induction, uncertainty and social feedback
Auteur(s)
Tipura, Eda
Renaud, Olivier
Pegna, Alan J.
Date de parution
2022-2-9
In
Biological Psychology
No
169
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1
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10
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1
Résumé
Cognitive models of social anxiety propose that socially anxious individuals engage in excessive self-focusing attention when entering a social situation. In the present study, speech anxiety was induced to socially anxious and control participants. Event-related potentials were recorded while participants performed a perceptual judgement task using distinct or ambiguous stimuli, before and after social feedback. Disputed feedback led to more revisions and decreased levels of confidence, especially among socially anxious individuals. Prior feedback, greater occipital P1 amplitudes in both groups for ambiguous probes indicated heightened sensory facilitation to ambiguous information, and greater anterior N1 amplitudes for ambiguous stimuli in highly anxious participants suggested anticipation of negative feedback in this group. Post-feedback, P1, N1 and LPP amplitudes were reduced overall among socially anxious individuals indicating a reduction in sensory facilitation of visual information. These results suggest excessive self-focusing among socially anxious in- dividuals, possibly linked to anticipation of an anxiety-provoking social situation.
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