Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB)
in the maintenance of anxiety disorders by experimentally manipulating it. They found that …

… cognitive mechanisms involved in AB and anxiety, which builds on ideas from these models,
and considers how AB may be influenced by these mechanisms … the cognitive mechanisms …

… in our understanding of cognitive or neural mechanisms of attention biases. In particular, …
of attention that are biased in depression, qualities of negative information that bias attention, …

… on the negative attentional bias from across cognitive and clinical … in our understanding of
healthy attention systems in terms of … attention that might reduce the negative attentional bias, …

… biases remain unclear. In the present article, we review evidence regarding the mechanisms
of attentional biases … in this paper is that the mechanisms of attentional biases can best be …

… on the cognitive mechanisms underlying attentional bias in … of attentional bias and examined
the components of attention … attentional function view on attentional bias and indicate that …

… shift attention away from such material. The results were interpreted as supporting the
existence of anxiety-related encoding bias, and it is suggested that this cognitive mechanism may …

… differences in the magnitude of attentional bias change. The present findings inform upon …
cognitive mechanisms underpinning change in attentional bias, and identify a target cognitive …

… Hence, an overarching theme has been the progressive refinement of experimental
paradigms to isolate the cognitive mechanisms responsible for such behavioral effects. …

… We now briefly describe both direct and indirect measures, and we discuss the cognitive
mechanisms that are thought to underlie the effects that are obtained with each kind of task. …