On the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring: a meta-analysis and conceptual framework

被引:320
作者
Moser, Jason S. [1 ]
Moran, Tim P. [1 ]
Schroder, Hans S. [1 ]
Donnellan, M. Brent [1 ]
Yeung, Nick [2 ]
机构
[1] Michigan State Univ, Dept Psychol, E Lansing, MI 48823 USA
[2] Univ Oxford, Dept Psychol, Oxford, England
来源
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE | 2013年 / 7卷
关键词
anxiety; error monitoring; error-related negativity; conflict monitoring; cognitive control; event-related potential (ERP); meta-analysis; worry; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REGIONAL BRAIN ACTIVITY; WORKING-MEMORY; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; COGNITIVE CONTROL; NEGATIVITY ERN; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; BEHAVIORAL-INHIBITION; ANXIOUS APPREHENSION; RESPONSE-INHIBITION;
D O I
10.3389/fnhum.2013.00466
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Research involving event-related brain potentials has revealed that anxiety is associated with enhanced error monitoring, as reflected in increased amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN). The nature of the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring is unclear, however. Through meta-analysis and a critical review of the literature, we argue that anxious apprehension/worry is the dimension of anxiety most closely associated with error monitoring. Although, overall, anxiety demonstrated a robust, "small-to-medium" relationship with enhanced ERN (r = -0.25), studies employing measures of anxious apprehension show a threefold greater effect size estimate (r = -0.35) than those utilizing other measures of anxiety (r = -0.09). Our conceptual framework helps explain this more specific relationship between anxiety and enhanced ERN and delineates the unique roles of worry, conflict processing, and modes of cognitive control. Collectively, our analysis suggests that enhanced ERN in anxiety results from the interplay of a decrease in processes supporting active goal maintenance and a compensatory increase in processes dedicated to transient reactivation of task goals on an as-needed basis when salient events (i.e., errors) occur.
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