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 …

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 …

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 …

Anxiety is one of the most common forms of child psychopathology associated with
persistent impairment across the lifespan. Therefore, investigating mechanisms that underlie …

For decades, researchers have been interested in humans' ability to quickly detect threat-
relevant stimuli. Here, we review recent findings from infant research on biased attention to …

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

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 …

Highlights•Anxious individuals and those at risk show attention biases to irrelevant
threats.•These attention biases are related to imbalanced prefrontal-limbic-sensory …

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 …

Research on attention provides a promising framework for studying anxiety pathophysiology
and treatment. The study of attention biases appears particularly pertinent to developmental …