Trait anxiety and impaired control of reflective attention in working memory
| Autor: | Takatoshi Hoshino, Yoshihiko Tanno |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Phrase Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Anxiety 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Thinking Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Reading (process) Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Trait anxiety Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Set (psychology) Control (linguistics) media_common Working memory 05 social sciences Memory Short-Term Reading Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Word (computer architecture) Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition and Emotion. 30:369-377 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0600 0269-9931 |
| Popis: | The present study investigated whether the control of reflective attention in working memory (WM) is impaired in high trait anxiety individuals. We focused on the consequences of refreshing-a simple reflective process of thinking briefly about a just-activated representation in mind-on the subsequent processing of verbal stimuli. Participants performed a selective refreshing task, in which they initially refreshed or read one word from a three-word set, and then refreshed a non-selected item from the initial phrase or read aloud a new word. High trait anxiety individuals exhibited greater latencies when refreshing a word after experiencing the refreshing of a word from the same list of semantic associates. The same pattern was observed for reading a new word after prior refreshing. These findings suggest that high trait anxiety individuals have difficulty resolving interference from active distractors when directing reflective attention towards contents in WM or processing a visually presented word. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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