Threat bias, or exaggerated selective attention to threat, is considered a key neurocognitive
factor in the etiology and maintenance of pediatric anxiety disorders. However, upon closer …

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 …

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

Background Considerable research links threat‐related attention biases to anxiety
symptoms in adults, whereas extant findings on threat biases in youth are limited and mixed …

Cross-sectional evidence suggests that attention bias to threat is linked to anxiety disorders
and anxiety vulnerability in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of …

Although it is well known that anxious adults show selective attention to threatening stimuli,
research investigating attentional bias in children with anxiety has produced mixed results …

Background: Threat‐related attention biases have been implicated in the etiology and
maintenance of anxiety disorders. As a result, attention bias modification (ABM) protocols …

The research literature suggests that children and adolescents suffering from anxiety
disorders experience cognitive distortions that magnify their perceived level of threat in the …

BackgroundPreliminary research implicates threat-related attention biases in paediatric
anxiety disorders. However, major questions exist concerning diagnostic specificity, effects …

Attention biases towards threatening and sad stimuli are associated with pediatric anxiety
and depression, respectively. The basic cognitive mechanisms associated with attention …