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|April 28, 2006
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Anxiety selectively impairs spatial working memory (WM) performance. Individual differences in anxiety and behavioral inhibition causally mediate this disruption, suggesting a revision of current cognitive models.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Emotion-cognition interactions are complex.
  • Task-irrelevant affect, such as anxiety, can modulate cognitive functions.
  • Existing models require refinement to fully explain anxiety's impact on cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose methodological desiderata for studying affect-cognition interactions.
  • To investigate how threat-induced anxiety affects spatial and verbal working memory (WM).
  • To explore the mediating role of anxiety and behavioral inhibition in cognitive performance.

Main Methods:

  • Review of emotion-cognition interaction literature.
  • Experimental manipulation of threat-induced anxiety.

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  • Assessment of spatial and verbal working memory accuracy.
  • Measurement of physiological anxiety and behavioral inhibition.

    • Main Results:

    • Anxiety selectively disrupted spatial but not verbal working memory accuracy.
    • Physiological measures of anxiety mediated the degree of working memory disruption.
    • High behavioral inhibition correlated with increased anxiety and worse spatial WM performance, even without threat.

    Conclusions:

    • Anxiety causally mediates the disruption of cognitive functions, particularly spatial working memory.
    • Proposed methodological desiderata are useful for studying affect-cognition links.
    • Findings suggest a revision of existing models on how anxiety influences cognition.