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November 19, 2025PLoS ONEOpen Access

Temporal dynamics of emotional face processing in social anxiety

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YFYa-Chun FengBKBo-Cheng KuoWHWen-Yau Hsu

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Overview

ERP study reveals attention bias towards emotional expressions in individuals with social anxiety, indicating altered face processing.

Key Points

  • The research examines how emotional face expressions affect attention and perception in social anxiety individuals.
  • Event-related potential (ERP) study with high and low social anxiety participants
  • Utilized a dot-probe task with various face pairs
  • Measured N170 amplitude and N2pc effects in response to emotional faces
  • No group differences in attention bias were found behaviorally
  • HSA individuals showed reduced N170 amplitude in response to specific face pairs
  • Enhanced N2pc effects were present in HSA for individual emotional expressions

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Feng et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924f095c0ce034ddc350b9dhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0337403
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