Ahrens, Lea M. and Muehlberger, Andreas and Pauli, Paul and Wieser, Matthias J. (2015) Impaired visuocortical discrimination learning of socially conditioned stimuli in social anxiety. SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 10 (7). pp. 929-937. ISSN 1749-5016, 1749-5024
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In search of causative factors of social anxiety disorder (SAD), classical conditioning has been discussed as a potential trigger mechanism for many years. Recent findings suggest that the social relevance of the unconditioned stimulus (US) might play a major role in learning theories of SAD. Thus, this study applied a social conditioning paradigm with disorder-relevant US to examine the electrocortical correlates of affective learning. Twenty-four high socially anxious (HSA) and 23 age-and gender-matched low socially anxious (LSA) subjects were conditioned to 3 different faces flickering at a frequency of 15 Hz which were paired with auditory insults, compliments or neutral comments (US). The face-evoked electrocortical response was measured via steady-state visually evoked potentials and subjective measures of valence and arousal were obtained. Results revealed a significant interaction of social anxiety and conditioning, with LSA showing highest cortical activity to faces paired with insults and lowest activity to faces paired with compliments, while HSA did not differentiate between faces. No group differences were discovered in the affective ratings. The findings indicate a potentially impaired ability of HSA to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant social stimuli, which may constitute a perpetuating factor of SAD.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | EVOKED-POTENTIAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMAN VISUAL-CORTEX; AMYGDALA ACTIVATION; TIME-COURSE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; CUED SHIFTS; FEAR; PHOBIA; DISORDER; BRAIN; fear conditioning; social anxiety; EEG; social stimuli; steady-state visually evoked potentials |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2019 06:21 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2019 06:21 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/5219 |
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