Conditions affecting the association of general trait-anxiety with the ERN-Ne

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  Figure 1. Trial sequence of the flanker task. In the first depicted trial, the correct button is pressed and the response is fast enough, whereas in the second depicted trial, the response is too slow and therefore a sound is played additional to the text feedback. The black screen was only presented when participants had not responded during the display of the number. T = button (German: Taste), Z = time (German: Zeit), + = correct, − = wrong.

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  Figure 2. Mean response-locked ERP for the response types in the condition without scream (A) and in the condition with scream (B). CSD transformations were performed.

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  Figure 3. Topographic maps were determined for the response types as the mean activity within time windows of 30 ms in the condition without scream (A) and in the condition with scream (B).

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  Figure 4. Model for the ERN-Ne and trait-anxiety including General distress (ANX); only coefficients that were significant in the total group or for men or women (completely standardized) path coefficients are given; before the slash: coefficients for women/behind the slash: coefficients for men; *p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, RT = RT error, HE = Hand error; SC = Part of the task with screams for RT errors; NSC = Part of the task without screams for RT errors; ΔWorry, Worry state before the task minus worry state after the task. BIS, trait BIS. AA, Anxious Arousal. DIS, General distress. STAI, trait-anxiety measured by the STAI. NCW, dummy variable representing the manipulation of worries; the inter-correlations of the predictors, factor loadings, and error terms are not presented. The gray arrows indicate that the path coefficients do not represent expected predictions and were only entered for the completeness of the model.