Does Overloading Cognitive Resources Mimic the Impact of Anxiety on Temporal Cognition?

Autor/inn/en	Sarigiannidis, Ioannis; Kirk, Peter A.; Roiser, Jonathan P.; Robinson, Oliver J.
Titel	Does Overloading Cognitive Resources Mimic the Impact of Anxiety on Temporal Cognition?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46 (2020) 10, S.1828-1835 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sarigiannidis, Ioannis) ORCID (Kirk, Peter A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000845
Schlagwörter	Anxiety; Cognitive Processes; Difficulty Level; Time Perspective; Coping; Foreign Countries; Fear; Evolution; United Kingdom (London); Beck Depression Inventory; State Trait Anxiety Inventory; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Zeitbezug; Bewältigung; Ausland; Furcht
Abstract	Anxiety alters how we perceive the world and can alter aspects of cognitive performance. Prominent theories of anxiety suggest that the effect of anxiety on cognition is due to anxious thoughts "overloading" limited cognitive resources, competing with other processes. If this is so, then a cognitive load manipulation should impact performance of a task in the same way as induced anxiety. Thus, we examined the impact of a load manipulation on a time perception task that we have previously shown to be reliably impacted by anxiety. In contrast with our prediction, across 3 studies we found that time perception was insensitive to our load manipulation. Our results do not therefore support the idea that anxiety impacts temporal cognition by overloading limited cognitive resources, at least as induced by a commonly used load manipulation. Thus, anxiety might affect temporal cognition in a unique way, via an evolutionary-preserved defense survival system, as suggested by animal-inspired theories of anxiety, rather than competing for limited attentional resources. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01