Look who's judging—Feedback source modulates brain activation to performance feedback in social anxiety

It is as yet unknown if behavioral and neural correlates of performance monitoring in socially anxious individuals are affected by whether feedback is provided by a person or a computer. This fMRI study investigated modulation of feedback processing by feedback source (person vs. computer) in participants with high (HSA) (N = 16) and low social anxiety (LSA) (N = 16). Subjects performed a choice task in which they were informed that they would...