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Citation |
Zhai J, Chen X, Ma J, Yang Q, Liu Y. Psychiatry Res. 2016; 246: 379-386. |
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Affiliation |
Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chong Qing, China. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing) |
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27788456 |
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Abstract |
Our study examined attachment-related electrophysiological differences in recognition using event-related potentials (ERPs) measured during a study-test paradigm after threat priming. We identified ERP correlates of recognition by comparing the ERPs of attachment-related positive and negative images between avoidant and secure attachment orientations. Our results revealed that the distribution of early old/new effects was broader in avoidant individuals than in secure individuals, and an early parietal old/new effect was observed in avoidant individuals, which reflected their implicit memory. The late old/new effect was found only in secure individuals when evoked by negative pictures, and was not observed in avoidant individuals. The results suggest that avoidant individuals adopt the "vigilance-avoidance" dual-process model to recognize both positive and negative attachment-related stimuli and carry out preferential familiarity matching at the automatic level and avoidant retrieval at the controlled-processing level. Language: en |