First publication by Kai Härpfer and Hannes Per Carsten!

25 August 2020, by Anke Ellegast

Kai Härpfer and Hannes Per Carsten published their first article in our department last week. Congratulations!

 The authors summarize their results as follows:

In our study we investigated the impact of two transdiagnostic anxiety dimensions (anxious apprehension and anxious arousal) on the neuronal correlates of action monitoring. For that reason, we utilized the event-related potential called Error-Related Negativity (ERN). Previous studies have mainly found an association of anxious apprehension and ERN in clinical samples (e.g., in patients with generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or social anxiety disorder). Our study aimed at investigating this association in a non-clinical sample. Our analyses did not reveal any association of the two anxiety dimensions with the ERN.

Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Spychalski, D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2020). Were we erring? The impact of worry and arousal on error-related negativity in a non-clinical sample. Psychophysiology, e13661. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13661