They students also display insecurity in engaging in a new task, in anticipation of having to redo assignments several times during their work at the project.
Additional regressors of noninterest included task periods (anticipation and outcome), residual motion, and baseline, linear, and quadratic trends.
Participants peformed the stop-signal anticipation task (Fig. 1), a paradigm based on the stop-signal task [1], [7] and Slater-Hammel task [23], [27].
The present study examined individual differences for a visual anticipation task.
In the present study, we examined the biobehavioral impact of varying levels of anticipatory anxiety, using a shock anticipation task in which unpredictable electric shocks were threatened and delivered to the wrist at variable intervals and intensities (safe, medium, strong).
In two studies, 95 and 51 healthy female participants, respectively, underwent this shock anticipation task while providing continuous ratings of anxiety experience and electrodermal responding (Study 1) and during fMRI BOLD neuroimaging (Study 2).
Participants were trained on the stop-signal anticipation task before the fMRI experiment.
Stopping in the stop-signal anticipation task may therefore be harder than in the standard stop-signal paradigm.
The stop-signal anticipation task involves manipulation of stop-signal probability, which varies from trial-to-trial and is made explicit with a visual cue.
In the first study we examined the hypothesis that performance of a simple continuous performance task (CPT) during anticipation of painful heat would modulate (i.e., decrease) anticipatory amygdala activity.
