TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurophysiological evidence for distinct biases in emotional face processing associated with internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children
AU - Willner, Cynthia J.
AU - Jetha, Michelle K.
AU - Segalowitz, Sidney J.
AU - Gatzke-Kopp, Lisa M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, The Social Science Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences [R305B090007], the U.S. National Institutes of Health [T32MH018268], and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [122222-2008].
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health , The Social Science Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University , the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences [ R305B090007 ], the U.S. National Institutes of Health [ T32MH018268 ], and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [ 122222-2008 ]. The authors also wish to thank Jennifer Ford for her extensive work in managing the complex data collection in this project, the numerous research assistants who contributed to this endeavor, and Jim Stieben for his generosity with the task software. The authors also would like to acknowledge Mark Greenberg, Karen Bierman, and Robert Nix, for their roles in designing, executing, overseeing, and managing the project from which these data are drawn
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Attentional bias to threat has been implicated in both internalizing and externalizing disorders. This study utilizes event-related potentials to examine early stages of perceptual attention to threatening (angry or fearful) versus neutral faces among a sample of 200 children ages 6–8 years from a low-income, urban community. Although both internalizing and externalizing symptoms were associated with processing biases, the nature of the bias differed between these two symptom domains. Internalizing symptoms were associated with heightened early attentional selection (P1) and later perceptual processing (P2) of fearful faces. In contrast, externalizing symptoms were associated with reduced early attentional selection (P1) of fearful faces and enhanced perceptual processing (P2) of neutral faces, possibly indicative of a hostile interpretation bias for ambiguous social cues. These results provide insight into the distinct cognitive-affective processes that may contribute to the etiology and maintenance of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.
AB - Attentional bias to threat has been implicated in both internalizing and externalizing disorders. This study utilizes event-related potentials to examine early stages of perceptual attention to threatening (angry or fearful) versus neutral faces among a sample of 200 children ages 6–8 years from a low-income, urban community. Although both internalizing and externalizing symptoms were associated with processing biases, the nature of the bias differed between these two symptom domains. Internalizing symptoms were associated with heightened early attentional selection (P1) and later perceptual processing (P2) of fearful faces. In contrast, externalizing symptoms were associated with reduced early attentional selection (P1) of fearful faces and enhanced perceptual processing (P2) of neutral faces, possibly indicative of a hostile interpretation bias for ambiguous social cues. These results provide insight into the distinct cognitive-affective processes that may contribute to the etiology and maintenance of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107829
DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107829
M3 - Article
C2 - 31790713
AN - SCOPUS:85077570588
VL - 150
JO - Biological Psychology
JF - Biological Psychology
SN - 0019-493X
M1 - 107829
ER -