Emotional cuing to test attentional network functioning in trait anxiety

  1. Consolación Gómez-Íñiguez 1
  2. Luis J. Fuentes 2
  3. Francisco Martínez-Sánchez 2
  4. Guillermo Campoy 2
  5. Pedro R. Montoro 3
  6. Francisco Palmero 1
  1. 1 Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
  2. 2 Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
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Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Year of publication: 2014

Volume: 35

Issue: 2

Pages: 309-329

Type: Article

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Abstract

El test de las redes atencionales (Attention Networks Test, ANT) ha sido muy utilizado para evaluar las tres redes atencionales propuestas por Posner y colaboradores. Aquí presentamos una versión del ANT que utiliza palabras cargadas emocionalmente como señales de orientación de la atención para evaluar el funcionamiento de las redes atencionales y sus interacciones. Estudiantes universitarios participaron en la tarea y los resultados replicaron aquellos obtenidos en estudios previos con la versión original del test. Aquellos participantes con puntuaciones extremas en la escala de ansiedad rasgo, STAI (State Trait Anxiety Inventory) fueron asignados al grupo de baja o alta ansiedad. El grupo de alta ansiedad mostró patrones normales de funcionamiento en las tres redes atencionales, pero las señales con carga emocional negativa modularon la interacción entre la red de orientación y la red ejecutiva. Concretamente, mostraron un déficit en el ajuste del foco atencional para abarcar justo la región espacial que contenía el estímulo objetivo, afectando a la resolución del conflicto en los ensayos incongruentes.

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