An attentional bias to threat has been causally related to anxiety. Recent research has
linked nonconscious attentional bias to threat with variability in the integrity of the amygdala …

An important aspect of the fear response is the allocation of spatial attention toward
threatening stimuli. This response is so powerful that modulations in spatial attention can …

The evidence for amygdala processing of emotional items outside the focus of attention is
mixed. We hypothesized that differences in attentional demands may, at least in part, explain …

A rapid response to environmental threat is highly adaptive and fearful facial expressions
serve as important threat cues. The biological significance of these threat cues is …

Functionally, anxiety serves to increase vigilance towards aversive stimuli and improve the
ability to detect and avoid danger. We have recently shown, for instance, that anxiety …

Background: Individuals vary in the degree to which salient threatening stimuli disrupt or
distract from goal‐directed cognitive processes. Excessive attention to threat or difficulty …

It is currently unclear to what extent cortical structures are required for and engaged during
subconscious processing of biologically salient affective stimuli (ie the 'low-road'vs.'many …

Acquired fear responses often generalize from conditioned stimuli (CS) towards perceptually
similar, but harmless generalization stimuli (GS). Knowledge on similarities between CS and …

Little is known about the network of brain regions activated prior to explicit awareness of
emotionally salient social stimuli. We investigated this in a functional magnetic resonance …

Debate continues as to the automaticity of the amygdala's response to threat. Accounts
taking a strong automaticity line suggest that the amygdala's response to threat is both …