TY - JOUR
T1 - Neural Correlates of Choking Under Pressure
T2 - Athletes High in Sports Anxiety Monitor Errors More When Performance Is Being Evaluated
AU - Masaki, Hiroaki
AU - Maruo, Yuya
AU - Meyer, Alexandria
AU - Hajcak, Greg
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this research came from a grant from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for North American and European Researchers, 2010) to G. Hajcak, and from a Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research 15K12657 from JSPS to H. Masaki, and a MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2015-2019 (S1511017).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Published with license by Taylor & Francis. © 2017 Hiroaki Masaki, Yuya Maruo, Alexandria Meyer, and Greg Hajcak.
PY - 2017/2/17
Y1 - 2017/2/17
N2 - We investigated the relationship between performance-related anxiety and the neural response to errors. Using the sport anxiety scale, we selected university athletes high in sports anxiety and low in sports anxiety. The two groups performed a spatial Stroop task while their performance was being evaluated by an experimenter and also during a control (i.e., no evaluation) condition. The error-related negativity was significantly larger during the evaluation than control condition among athletes who reported high performance-related anxiety. These results suggest that performance evaluation may make errors particularly aversive or salient for individuals who fail to perform well under pressure.
AB - We investigated the relationship between performance-related anxiety and the neural response to errors. Using the sport anxiety scale, we selected university athletes high in sports anxiety and low in sports anxiety. The two groups performed a spatial Stroop task while their performance was being evaluated by an experimenter and also during a control (i.e., no evaluation) condition. The error-related negativity was significantly larger during the evaluation than control condition among athletes who reported high performance-related anxiety. These results suggest that performance evaluation may make errors particularly aversive or salient for individuals who fail to perform well under pressure.
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U2 - 10.1080/87565641.2016.1274314
DO - 10.1080/87565641.2016.1274314
M3 - Article
C2 - 28452597
AN - SCOPUS:85018436643
SN - 8756-5641
VL - 42
SP - 104
EP - 112
JO - Developmental Neuropsychology
JF - Developmental Neuropsychology
IS - 2
ER -