Figure 1.

Patients with generalized anxiety disorder fail to adapt to emotional conflict. (A) Example task time course, illustrating the contrasts made to examine adaptation during congruent or incongruent trials. (B) Reaction time difference scores reflecting the overall effect of emotional conflict (incongruent minus congruent trials), the facilitation in reaction times during emotional conflict adaptation (post-incongruent incongruent trials (iI) faster than post-congruent incongruent trials (cI), resulting in a negative reaction time difference score), and similar adaptation on congruent trials (post-congruent congruent trials (cC) faster than post-incongruent congruent trials (iC)). A group difference was found only during adaptation on incongruent trials. Error bars are standard errors of the mean. Two-sample t-test: * p<0.05, one-sample t-test: # p<0.05, ## p<0.01, ### p<0.001. The inset shows reaction times for each condition (see supplemental materials online for a detailed table).