Anxiety is characterized by the anticipation of aversive future events. The importance of
prestimulus anticipatory factors, such as goals and expectations, is well-established in both …

Attentional bias towards threat is implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety
disorders. We examined the neural correlates of threat bias in anxious and nonanxious …

Extensive research has demonstrated the effects of threat-related attentional bias on anxiety
and stress-related disorders. This review summarizes recent findings from clinical affective …

Attentional biases toward threats (ABTs) have been described in high anxious individuals
and in clinical samples whereas they have been rarely reported in non-clinical samples (,;) …

The importance of top-down factors such as goals and expectations is well-established in
both visual perception and anxiety. However, researchers have attributed the perceptual …

Several researchers have proposed a causal relation between biased attention to threat and
the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in both children and adults …

Theoretical frameworks of anxiety propose that attentional biases to threat-related stimuli
cause or maintain anxious states. The current paper draws on theoretical frameworks and …

Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

Biased competition models of selective attention suggest that attentional competition is
influenced both by bottom‐up sensory mechanisms sensitive to stimulus salience and top …

The extant literature indicates that threat enhances cognitive processing and physiological
arousal. However, being largely based on fear-relevant processes, this model overlooks …