Compatibility between response position and either object typical size or semantic category: SNARC- and MARC-like effects in primary school children

In this study, we aimed to test the association of the Late Positive Potential (LPP) response and attachment dimensions in the choice of care/food pictures and its reaction time (RT) in threatening versus neutral conditions. Fifty-two participants (38 females, Mage 22.62) responded to the ECR questionnaire and were exposed to adequate visual stimuli, during EEG recording. Results showed that threatening stimuli increase the choice of care, decrease RT, and increase LPP magnitude in centro-parietal areas (Cpz, Pz, P3 and P4). Food choice was lower, with increased RT. Furthermore, larger LPP magnitude in centro-parietal cluster was associated with increased RT in the choice of care. Considering the dimensions of attachment, in threatening conditions, while anxiety was not associated with RT and care/food choice, avoidance was associated with an increase in care choice and RT. In conclusion, the specific association of increased RT in care choice with high LPP magnitude centro-parietal cluster may be explained in terms of a functional interference of these areas in the choice of care, but not of food. Further, we postulate that the increased RT of avoidant individuals may reflect a more articulated choice process.

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“…Probe pictures remained visible until participants responded. The relative position of the two pictures (left vs. right) was counterbalanced 41 .…”

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ERP and attachment dimensions as predictors of seeking care or food comfort in stressful situations

Uccula

Mercante

Pozzati

et al. 2023

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“…The two probe pictures remained visible until participants responded. The relative position of the two pictures (left vs. right) was counterbalanced (Uccula et al, 2020b ). The 60 experimental trials were preceded by 10 practice trials.…”

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Responding to Distress Choosing Between Care and Food: Attachment Orientation and Emotion Regulation

Uccula

Enna²,

Mulatti³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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According to attachment theory, care-seeking is the primary coping strategy in threatening situations. However, anxious and avoidant individuals often use secondary regulation strategies. The purpose of this study was to test whether, in a potentially threatening situation, the participants' attachment orientation affects whether they prefer to resort to care or food to regulate their negative emotions. Ninety-two participants took part in an experimental situation in which they had to choose between pictures of care or food, following the presentation of threatening images randomly alternating with neutral ones. Results showed that care pictures were chosen to a greater extent in the threatening condition compared to the food pictures and the neutral condition, without distinction of attachment orientation. In addition, in threatening condition, anxious individuals chose to care less than non-anxious individuals. Finally, avoidant participants chose care pictures to a lesser extent than individuals low on avoidance in the neutral condition, but not in the threatening condition. In conclusion, attachment anxiety was associated with more difficulty in the choice of representation of care in a threatening condition, while avoidant individuals show their defensive strategies in the neutral condition rather than in the threatening condition.

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“…As mentioned, associations involving either verbal-spatial or visuospatial coding mechanisms can serve to induce SNARC effects. However, most existing research utilizes tasks that involve lateralized visuospatial responding ( Cipora et al, 2019 ; Pellegrino et al, 2019 ; Uccula et al, 2020 ) with only a small few utilizing verbal-spatial responding to explore this effect. Namely, classic SNARC experiments typically map responses to the left and right hands, and only in the balance of the experimental design is each number mapped to the two hands.…”

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The Effect of Verbal Task Instruction on Spatial-Numerical Associations of Response Codes Effect Coding of Spatial-Numerical Associations: Evidence From Event-Related Potential

Pan

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Neurosci.

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The spatial-numerical associations of response codes (SNARC) effect reveals that individuals can represent numbers spatially. In this study, event-related potential (ERP) technology was used to probe the effect of verbal-spatial task instructions on spatial-numerical association coding by using digit parity and magnitude judgment tasks, with the numbers 1–9 (except 5) and Chinese word labels (“left” and “right”) as experimental materials. The behavioral results of Experiment 1 showed that the SNARC effect was mainly based on verbal-spatial coding and appeared when the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the presentation of the verbal labels and the target digit was 0 ms. ERP results did not reveal any significant SNARC-related effects in either the N1 or P3 components. The behavioral results of Experiment 2 again showed that the SNARC effect was dominated by verbal-spatial coding. ERP results showed that significant effects related to verbal-spatial coding were found in both the early positive deflection of the stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential (S-LRP) and the latency of the response-locked LRP (R-LRP). Hence, in this study, the nature of the spatial coding of the digit magnitudes was influenced by the processing of the word labels and affected both the response selection and response preparation stages.

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Compatibility between response position and either object typical size or semantic category: SNARC- and MARC-like effects in primary school children

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ERP and attachment dimensions as predictors of seeking care or food comfort in stressful situations

ERP and attachment dimensions as predictors of seeking care or food comfort in stressful situations

Responding to Distress Choosing Between Care and Food: Attachment Orientation and Emotion Regulation

The Effect of Verbal Task Instruction on Spatial-Numerical Associations of Response Codes Effect Coding of Spatial-Numerical Associations: Evidence From Event-Related Potential

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