Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB)
in the maintenance of anxiety disorders by experimentally manipulating it. They found that …

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 …

Cognitive effects of anxiety have been amply documented. Anxiety has been linked with an
attentional bias toward threat, distractibility, and reductions in short-term memory (STM) …

A well-established literature has identified different selective attentional orienting
mechanisms underlying anxiety-related attentional bias, such as engagement and …

Although research has consistently revealed the presence of a general attentional bias
towards threat, empirical and theoretical ambiguity exists in determining whether attentional …

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

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 …

The extant laboratory research on anxiety-related attentional bias in response to external
threat cues is discussed. Studies utilizing dichotic listening tasks, modified Stroop color …

It is generally held that anxiety is characterized by an attentional bias for threatening
information. In recent years there has been an important debate whether these biases reside …

Cognitive views on anxiety have proposed that attentional biases towards threatening
information in high trait anxious individuals play an important role in the maintenance of …