Sex moderates the relationship between worry and performance monitoring brain activity in undergraduates

Moran, Tim P.; Taylor, Danielle L.; Moser, Jason S.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.05.005

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“…The present proposal builds on our earlier explanation for why anxious apprehension shows a particularly strong association with enhanced ERN (Moran et al, 2012; Moser et al, 2012), which in turn drew heavily on Eysenck and colleagues' (2007) Attentional Control Theory (ACT). ACT is a recent extension of Eysenck and Calvo's (1992) original Processing Efficiency Theory (PET), which itself drew on Sarason's (1988) earlier Cognitive Interference Theory.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…Adjusting for three comparisons, these moderator analyses remain significant .† In the initial analysis, we did not include the anxious arousal data from Moran et al (2012) as the sample is entirely redundant with the anxious apprehension data. When the anxious arousal data from are included, the ERN (r = −0.25, k = 33, n = 1903, 95% CIs: −0.30; −0.20) and ΔERN (r = −0.21, k = 27, n = 1583, 95% CIs: 0.26; −0.15) continued to show significant associations with anxiety .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One study (Cavanagh et al, 2010) was excluded because it reported a re-analysis of data that were included in the final meta-analysis (Gründler et al, 2009; Study 2 Flankers task). Because Moser et al (2012) reported on a subset of the full sample reported on in Moran et al (2012) we only included the Moran et al (2012) study so as to include the full sample. Moreover, we did not include the anxious arousal data from Moran et al (2012) in the overall analysis, as the sample is entirely redundant with the anxious apprehension data, but we did include it in moderation analyses described below.…”

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On the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring: a meta-analysis and conceptual framework

Moser¹,

Moran²,

Schroder³

et al. 2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Research involving event-related brain potentials has revealed that anxiety is associated with enhanced error monitoring, as reflected in increased amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN). The nature of the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring is unclear, however. Through meta-analysis and a critical review of the literature, we argue that anxious apprehension/worry is the dimension of anxiety most closely associated with error monitoring. Although, overall, anxiety demonstrated a robust, “small-to-medium” relationship with enhanced ERN (r = −0.25), studies employing measures of anxious apprehension show a threefold greater effect size estimate (r = −0.35) than those utilizing other measures of anxiety (r = −0.09). Our conceptual framework helps explain this more specific relationship between anxiety and enhanced ERN and delineates the unique roles of worry, conflict processing, and modes of cognitive control. Collectively, our analysis suggests that enhanced ERN in anxiety results from the interplay of a decrease in processes supporting active goal maintenance and a compensatory increase in processes dedicated to transient reactivation of task goals on an as-needed basis when salient events (i.e., errors) occur.

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On the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring: a meta-analysis and conceptual framework

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“…Importantly, the successful recruitment of mPCF/lPFC-mediated control processes is inferred from post-error behavior such as slowed RTs and increased accuracy (Garavan et al, 2002;Kerns et al, 2004;Kerns, 2006;Hester et al, 2007;Danielmeier and Ullsperger, 2011;Schroder and Moser, 2014). The recruitment of cognitive control in anxiety, on the other hand, has generally been inferred from an enhanced ERN/ACC activity as anxiety (and worry in particular) is not reliably associated with posterror behavior (Hajcak and Simons, 2002;Hajcak et al, 2003;Hajcak et al, 2008;Hanna et al, 2012;Meyer et al, 2013;Moran et al, 2012;Weinberg et al, 2010Pourtois, 2010, 2012;Carrasco et al, 2013). This leads to the question 'if anxiety enhances error-related cognitive control processes (i.e.…”

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“…The data for two participants were lost due to technical failures resulting in a total sample size of 77. Participants ranged in age between 18 and 40 (M ¼ 19.82, SD ¼ 2.86); the sample included only women per Moran et al (2012). No participants discontinued their involvement once the experiment began.…”

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Sending mixed signals: worry is associated with enhanced initial error processing but reduced call for subsequent cognitive control

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Bernat

Aviyente

et al. 2015

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Worry is reliably associated with overactive action-monitoring processes as measured by the error-related negativity (ERN). However, worry is not associated with error-related behavioral adjustments which are typically used to infer increased cognitive control following errors. We hypothesized that this disconnect between overactive action monitoring and unimproved post-error adjustments in worriers is the result of reduced functional integration between medial and lateral prefrontal regions during generation of the ERN, understood to have an important role in mediating controlled processing. To test this, we examined ERN amplitude and interchannel phase synchrony extracted from scalp-recorded electroencephalographic data during error processing in 77 undergraduates who performed a Flankers task. Correlational and path analytic results demonstrated that worry was related to both an enlarged ERN and reduced phase synchrony. Although not directly related to post-error behavioral adjustments, results also revealed that worry was indirectly related to poor post-error adjustments through its association with reduced phase synchrony. Therefore, worry seems to affect multiple components of the action-monitoring system. It is related not just with the initial response to the error, but also with the transmission of information between networks involved in cognitive control processes.

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Sex moderates the relationship between worry and performance monitoring brain activity in undergraduates

Cited by 61 publications

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On the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring: a meta-analysis and conceptual framework

On the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring: a meta-analysis and conceptual framework

Sending mixed signals: worry is associated with enhanced initial error processing but reduced call for subsequent cognitive control

Reconciling Competing Perspectives About How Undermining at Home Influences Speaking Up at Work

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