Gray Katie L H, Adams Wendy J, Garner Matthew
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton S017 1BJ, UK.
Cognition. 2009 Oct;113(1):105-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.009. Epub 2009 Aug 4.
Neurocognitive theories of anxiety predict that threat-related information can be evaluated before attentional selection, and can influence behaviour differentially in high anxious compared to low anxious individuals. We investigate this further by presenting emotional and neutral faces in an adapted binocular rivalry paradigm. We show that the initial selection of emotional faces presented in binocular rivalry is highly influenced by self-reported state and trait anxiety-level. Heightened anxiety was correlated with increased perception of angry and fearful faces, and decreased perception of happy expressions. These results are consistent with recent evidence of involuntary selection of threat in anxiety.
焦虑的神经认知理论预测，与威胁相关的信息可以在注意力选择之前进行评估，并且与低焦虑个体相比，高焦虑个体的行为会受到不同的影响。我们通过在一种改编的双眼竞争范式中呈现情绪化和中性的面孔来进一步研究这一点。我们发现，双眼竞争中呈现的情绪化面孔的初始选择受到自我报告的状态和特质焦虑水平的高度影响。焦虑加剧与对愤怒和恐惧面孔的感知增加以及对快乐表情的感知减少相关。这些结果与焦虑中威胁的非自愿选择的最新证据一致。
