TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial affect learning restricted in major depression relative to anxiety disorders and healthy controls
AU - Gollan, Jackie K.
AU - Norris, Catherine J.
AU - Hoxha, Denada
AU - Irick, John Stockton
AU - Hawkley, Louise C.
AU - Cacioppo, John T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Jackie K. Gollan, Northwestern University, Asher Centre for Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, 676 North St Clair Street, Suite 1000, Chicago IL 60613, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Research was supported by National Institute of Mental Health (P50 MH 52384-01A1 P01), Dr Peter Lang, NIMH Centre for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville FL.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Detecting and learning the location of unpleasant or pleasant scenarios, or spatial affect learning, is an essential skill that safeguards well-being (Crawford & Cacioppo, 2002). Potentially altered by psychiatric illness, this skill has yet to be measured in adults with and without major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders (AD). This study enrolled 199 adults diagnosed with MDD and AD (n=53), MDD (n=47), AD (n=54), and no disorders (n=45). Measures included clinical interviews, self-reports, and a validated spatial affect task using affective pictures (IAPS; Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2005). Participants with MDD showed impaired spatial affect learning of negative stimuli and irrelevant learning of pleasant pictures compared with non-depressed adults. Adults with MDD may use a "GOOD is UP" heuristic reflected by their impaired learning of the opposite correlation (i.e., "BAD is UP") and performance in the pleasant version of the task.
AB - Detecting and learning the location of unpleasant or pleasant scenarios, or spatial affect learning, is an essential skill that safeguards well-being (Crawford & Cacioppo, 2002). Potentially altered by psychiatric illness, this skill has yet to be measured in adults with and without major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders (AD). This study enrolled 199 adults diagnosed with MDD and AD (n=53), MDD (n=47), AD (n=54), and no disorders (n=45). Measures included clinical interviews, self-reports, and a validated spatial affect task using affective pictures (IAPS; Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2005). Participants with MDD showed impaired spatial affect learning of negative stimuli and irrelevant learning of pleasant pictures compared with non-depressed adults. Adults with MDD may use a "GOOD is UP" heuristic reflected by their impaired learning of the opposite correlation (i.e., "BAD is UP") and performance in the pleasant version of the task.
KW - Anxiety disorder
KW - Major depression
KW - Spatial affect learning
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U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2013.794772
DO - 10.1080/02699931.2013.794772
M3 - Article
C2 - 23701242
AN - SCOPUS:84890441854
SN - 0269-9931
VL - 28
SP - 36
EP - 45
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
IS - 1
ER -