APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Hypervigilance for and Reactivity to Affective Information Is Associated with Baseline Sympathetic Activity
- Erick Fedorenko
Hunter College - Olena Kleshchova
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York - Mariann Weierich
Hunter College, The City University of New York
Abstract
We tested the associations between sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity, and hypervigilance, and hyper-reactivity to potential threat, indexed by increased scanning while viewing affectively neutral and negative scenes, respectively. In trauma-exposed participants, the number of fixations in both neutral and negative scenes was associated with baseline SNS activity.
Psychopathology
