Most theoretical models of anxiety disorders implicate maladaptive visuo-spatial attentional
processing of threat-relevant information in the onset and maintenance of symptoms. We …

A considerable volume of research has demonstrated an anxiety-linked attentional bias
characterized by selective processing of threat stimuli. The last decade has seen growing …

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 …

Both selective attention and emotions have important evolution-driven functions. The main
functions of attention are to facilitate fast and accurate perceptual judgements and actions …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

Anxiety-related attention bias (AB) has been studied for several decades as a clinically
relevant output of the dynamic and complex threat-detection and-response system. Despite …

Across clinical and subclinical samples, anxiety has been associated with increased
attentional capture by cues signaling danger. Various cognitive models attribute the onset …

Beginning in the 1980s, experimental psychopathologists increasingly adapted the concepts
and paradigms of cognitive science to elucidate information-processing abnormalities that …

Cognitive models of anxiety propose that selective attention to negative information plays a
causal role in heightened anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction. However, there has been …

Although researchers have long hypothesized a relationship between attention and anxiety,
theoretical and empirical accounts of this relationship have conflicted. We attempted to …