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Pupillometric and saccadic measures of affective and executive processing in anxiety

Pupillometric and saccadic measures of affective and executive processing in anxiety
Pupillometric and saccadic measures of affective and executive processing in anxiety
Anxious individuals report hyper-arousal and sensitivity to environmental stimuli, difficulties concentrating, performing tasks efficiently and inhibiting unwanted thoughts and distraction. We used pupillometry and eye-movement measures to compare high vs. low anxious individuals hyper-reactivity to emotional stimuli (facial expressions) and subsequent attentional biases in a memory-guided pro- and antisaccade task during conditions of low and high cognitive load (short vs. long delay). High anxious individuals produced larger and slower pupillary responses to face stimuli, and more erroneous eye-movements particularly following long delay. Low anxious individuals’ pupillary responses were sensitive to task demand (reduced during short delay), whereas high anxious individuals' were not. These findings provide evidence in anxiety of enhanced, sustained and inflexible patterns of pupil responding during affective stimulus processing and cognitive load that precede deficits in task performance.
pupillary responses, saccades, anxiety, emotion, effo
0301-0511
173-179
Hepsomali, Piril
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Hadwin, Julie
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Liversedge, Simon
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Garner, Matthew
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Hepsomali, Piril, Hadwin, Julie, Liversedge, Simon and Garner, Matthew (2017) Pupillometric and saccadic measures of affective and executive processing in anxiety. Biological Psychology, 127, 173-179. (doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.05.013).

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Anxious individuals report hyper-arousal and sensitivity to environmental stimuli, difficulties concentrating, performing tasks efficiently and inhibiting unwanted thoughts and distraction. We used pupillometry and eye-movement measures to compare high vs. low anxious individuals hyper-reactivity to emotional stimuli (facial expressions) and subsequent attentional biases in a memory-guided pro- and antisaccade task during conditions of low and high cognitive load (short vs. long delay). High anxious individuals produced larger and slower pupillary responses to face stimuli, and more erroneous eye-movements particularly following long delay. Low anxious individuals’ pupillary responses were sensitive to task demand (reduced during short delay), whereas high anxious individuals' were not. These findings provide evidence in anxiety of enhanced, sustained and inflexible patterns of pupil responding during affective stimulus processing and cognitive load that precede deficits in task performance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 May 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 May 2017
Published date: July 2017
Keywords: pupillary responses, saccades, anxiety, emotion, effo
Organisations: Cognition, Clinical Neuroscience, Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 410232
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410232
ISSN: 0301-0511
PURE UUID: 232248eb-faf9-49a0-9716-59b5764c6494
ORCID for Matthew Garner: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9481-2226

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Date deposited: 06 Jun 2017 04:02
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:22

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Author: Piril Hepsomali
Author: Julie Hadwin
Author: Simon Liversedge
Author: Matthew Garner ORCID iD

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