The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety
(2012) JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. 53(8). p.856-863- abstract
- Background: Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in children and adolescents, and are associated with aberrant emotion-related attention orienting and inhibitory control. While recent studies conducted with high-trait anxious adults have employed novel emotion-modified antisaccade tasks to examine the influence of emotional information on orienting and inhibition, similar studies have yet to be conducted in youths. Methods: Participants were 22 children/adolescents diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and 22 age-matched healthy comparison youths. Participants completed an emotion-modified antisaccade task that was similar to those used in studies of high-trait anxious adults. This task probed the influence of abruptly appearing neutral, happy, angry, or fear stimuli on orienting (prosaccade) or inhibitory (antisaccade) responses. Results: Anxious compared to healthy children showed facilitated orienting toward angry stimuli. With respect to inhibitory processes, threat-related information improved antisaccade accuracy in healthy but not anxious youth. These findings were not linked to individual levels of reported anxiety or specific anxiety disorders. Conclusions: Findings suggest that anxious relative to healthy children manifest enhanced orienting toward threat-related stimuli. In addition, the current findings suggest that threat may modulate inhibitory control during adolescent development.
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- author
- Sven Müller UGent, Michael Hardin, Karin Mogg, Valerie Benson, Brendan Bradley, Marie Lousie Reinholdt-Dunne, Simon Liversedge, Daniel Pine and Monique Ernst
- organization
- year
- 2012
- type
- journalArticle (original)
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keyword
- ANTISACCADE TASK, EYE-MOVEMENT, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, DISORDERS, THREAT, PERFORMANCE, BIAS, ADOLESCENCE, PREVALENCE, MECHANISMS, Anxiety, development, children, emotion, orienting, inhibition, bias, saccade
- journal title
- JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
- J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry
- volume
- 53
- issue
- 8
- pages
- 856 - 863
- Web of Science type
- Article
- Web of Science id
- 000306310200007
- JCR category
- PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
- JCR impact factor
- 5.422 (2012)
- JCR rank
- 2/65 (2012)
- JCR quartile
- 1 (2012)
- ISSN
- 0021-9630
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02541.x
- project
- The integrative neuroscience of behavioral control (Neuroscience)
- language
- English
- UGent publication?
- yes
- classification
- A1
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- I have transferred the copyright for this publication to the publisher
- id
- 2004789
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- http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2004789
- date created
- 2012-01-26 12:07:26
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- Chicago
- Müller, Sven, Michael Hardin, Karin Mogg, Valerie Benson, Brendan Bradley, Marie Lousie Reinholdt-Dunne, Simon Liversedge, Daniel Pine, and Monique Ernst. 2012. “The Influence of Emotional Stimuli on Attention Orienting and Inhibitory Control in Pediatric Anxiety.” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 53 (8): 856–863.
- APA
- Müller, Sven, Hardin, M., Mogg, K., Benson, V., Bradley, B., Reinholdt-Dunne, M. L., Liversedge, S., et al. (2012). The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, 53(8), 856–863.
- Vancouver
- 1.Müller S, Hardin M, Mogg K, Benson V, Bradley B, Reinholdt-Dunne ML, et al. The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. 2012;53(8):856–63.
- MLA
- Müller, Sven, Michael Hardin, Karin Mogg, et al. “The Influence of Emotional Stimuli on Attention Orienting and Inhibitory Control in Pediatric Anxiety.” JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY 53.8 (2012): 856–863. Print.