The Relationship between Anxiety and Task Switching Ability

Abstract

This study examined task switching ability as a function of anxiety Participants with mild anxiety switched between emotion and age classification among faces There were few important results i Individuals with anxiety categorized facial emotion faster than facial age ii There was a larger switch cost for age than the emotion categorization iii Anxiety was a significant predictor of task switch costs We discussed why anxious individuals showed a deficit in cognitive control of facial attributes