Incidental threat during visuospatial working memory in adolescent anxiety: An emotional memory-guided saccade task

摘要: BACKGROUND: Pediatric anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric mental illnesses in children and adolescents, associated with abnormal cognitive control emotional, particularly threat, contexts. In a series of studies using eye movement saccade tasks, we reported anxiety-related alterations interplay inhibitory incentives, or emotional distractors. The present study extends these findings to working memory (WM), queries interaction spatial WM stimuli pediatric clinical anxiety. METHODS: Participants were 33 children/adolescents diagnosed an disorder, 22 age-matched healthy comparison youths. completed novel task, affective variant memory-guided task. This task assessed influence incidental threat on processes during high low load. RESULTS: Healthy but not anxious showed slowed latencies low-load high-load conditions. No other group effects emerged latency accuracy. CONCLUSIONS: current data suggest differential pattern how emotion interacts youth relative youth. These extend from processes, previously, Language: en