Threat context impairs cognitive control of neutral words processing in social anxiety individuals: evidence from ERP and theta oscillations

Abstract Background Social anxiety (SA) is characterized by cognitive control impairments, particularly in the processing of threat, yet how threat-laden environments modulate cognitive control over neutral stimuli remains unclear. This study examined whether threat context impairs the processing of...

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Published in:	BMC Neuroscience
Main Authors:	Haiyan Zhao, Feng Si, Hui Meng, Haibo Yang, Dawei Sun, Longyan Peng, Jianqin Cao
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2025-08-01
Subjects:	Social anxiety Cognitive control Event-related potential Time-Frequency representation
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-025-00976-2