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SUBMITTER: Simmons A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546168 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simmons Alan A Matthews Scott C SC Feinstein Justin S JS Hitchcock Carla C Paulus Martin P MP Stein Murray B MB
Neuroreport 20080701 10
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is critically involved not only in affective and anxiety processing, but also in error and conflict monitoring. To investigate how anxiety interacts with processing affective ambiguity, 15 anxious and 15 nonanxious individuals were scanned while performing a validated affective appraisal task, in which the fraction of faces of a particular affect or gender was parametrically controlled to provide various levels of ambiguity. The anxious group showed less ventr ...[more]