Fig. 3.

Effects of reduced neural inhibition (A) Model predictions: Reduced competitive neural inhibition in the VLPFC layer, simulating increasing anxiety, impairs selection (i.e., increases selection cost) under high and low retrieval demands, and suggests that effects of anxiety on selection may be most robust under low retrieval demands. (B) Empirical results. Higher anxiety participants show impaired selection under high and low retrieval demands (model fit is further discussed in Results). All error bars are SEs.