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COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 239-253Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.8.3.239
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- National Institute of Mental Health [R01 MH66088, R01 MH-66078, R01 MH-66031]
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According to the processing-efficiency hypothesis (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvin, 2007), anxious individuals are thought to require greater activation of brain systems supporting cognitive control (e.g., dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; DLPFC) in order to maintain equivalent performance to nonanxious subjects. A recent theory of cognitive control (Braver, Gray, & Burgess, 2007) has proposed that reduced cognitive efficiency might occur as a result of changes in the temporal dynamics of DLPFC recruitment. In this study, we used a mixed blocked/event-related fMRI design to track transient and sustained activity in DLPFC while high- and low-anxious participants performed a working memory task. The task was performed after the participants viewed videos designed to induce neutral or anxiety-related moods. After the neutral video, the high-anxious participants had reduced sustained but increased transient activation in working memory areas, in comparison with low-anxious participants. The high-anxious group also showed extensive reductions in sustained activation of default-network areas (possible deactivation). After the negative video, the low-anxiety group shifted their activation dynamics in cognitive control regions to resemble those of the high-anxious group. These results suggest that reduced cognitive control in anxiety might be due to a transient, rather than sustained, pattern of working memory recruitment. Supplementary information for this study may be found at www.psychonomic.org/archive.
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