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June 17, 2026BMC PsychologyOpen Access

High social anxiety is associated with attenuated cognitive-control modulation in a mixed threat–neutral context: evidence from ERPs and time-frequency analysis

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HWHaichen WangCentral South UniversityXZXi ZhangGeneral CardiologyYZYani ZhangHarbin Medical University

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Overview

Randomized trial examines cognitive control in high social anxiety and its neural processing differences.

Key Points

  • This study investigates how high social anxiety affects cognitive control in the presence of threat and neutral stimuli.
  • Participants were divided into high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) groups.
  • An emotional Stroop task was used with neutral and social threat words intermixed.
  • Behavioral and neural responses were measured, focusing on response times and event-related potentials (ERPs).
  • The HSA group responded more slowly than the LSA group, with comparable accuracy between groups.
  • Neutral words elicited larger N2 and N450 amplitudes than threat words, with clearer modulation seen in the LSA group.
  • Theta power was stronger in the LSA group, while the HSA group showed stronger alpha desynchronization for neutral words.

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Wang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a323a58d50b63ecad20580ehttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-04996-3
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