Self-relevant threat contexts enhance early processing of fear-conditioned faces
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Self-relevant threat contexts enhance early processing of fear-conditioned faces. / Muench, Hannah M; Westermann, Stefan; Pizzagalli, Diego A; Hofmann, Stefan G; Mueller, Erik M.
in: BIOL PSYCHOL, Jahrgang 121, Nr. Pt B, 12.2016, S. 194-202.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Self-relevant threat contexts enhance early processing of fear-conditioned faces
AU - Muench, Hannah M
AU - Westermann, Stefan
AU - Pizzagalli, Diego A
AU - Hofmann, Stefan G
AU - Mueller, Erik M
N1 - Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - Anxiety states are characterized by attentional biases to threat and increased early brain responses to potentially threat signaling stimuli. How such stimuli are processed further depends on prior learning experiences (e.g. conditioning and extinction) and the context in which a stimulus appears. Whether context information and prior learning experiences interact with early threat processing in humans is largely unknown. Here, EEG was recorded while healthy participants (N=20) viewed faces that were fear-conditioned and/or extinguished 24h before. Faces were either passively viewed or presented within different contexts, which were created by describing scenarios that could either involve participants directly (self-threatening), or made them observers (other-threatening) of a potentially dangerous situation. Early brain responses (i.e., P1 amplitudes) were specifically enhanced during the self-threatening condition in response to non-extinguished versus extinguished fear-conditioned faces. This finding suggests that top-down contextual information is incorporated into early attention modulation of previously learned threat signals.
AB - Anxiety states are characterized by attentional biases to threat and increased early brain responses to potentially threat signaling stimuli. How such stimuli are processed further depends on prior learning experiences (e.g. conditioning and extinction) and the context in which a stimulus appears. Whether context information and prior learning experiences interact with early threat processing in humans is largely unknown. Here, EEG was recorded while healthy participants (N=20) viewed faces that were fear-conditioned and/or extinguished 24h before. Faces were either passively viewed or presented within different contexts, which were created by describing scenarios that could either involve participants directly (self-threatening), or made them observers (other-threatening) of a potentially dangerous situation. Early brain responses (i.e., P1 amplitudes) were specifically enhanced during the self-threatening condition in response to non-extinguished versus extinguished fear-conditioned faces. This finding suggests that top-down contextual information is incorporated into early attention modulation of previously learned threat signals.
KW - Adaptation, Psychological/physiology
KW - Adult
KW - Anxiety/physiopathology
KW - Association Learning/physiology
KW - Attentional Bias/physiology
KW - Brain/physiopathology
KW - Conditioning, Classical/physiology
KW - Culture
KW - Emotions/physiology
KW - Evoked Potentials/physiology
KW - Extinction, Psychological/physiology
KW - Facial Recognition/physiology
KW - Fear/physiology
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
U2 - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.07.017
DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.07.017
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 27475476
VL - 121
SP - 194
EP - 202
JO - BIOL PSYCHOL
JF - BIOL PSYCHOL
SN - 0301-0511
IS - Pt B
ER -