The neural chronometry of threat-related attentional bias: Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for early and late stages of selective attentional processing

RS Gupta, A Kujawa, DR Vago - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid and accurate detection of threat is adaptive. Yet, threat-related attentional biases,
including hypervigilance, avoidance, and attentional disengagement delays, may contribute …

Enhanced neural reactivity and selective attention to threat in anxiety

S Eldar, R Yankelevitch, D Lamy, Y Bar-Haim - Biological psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
Attentional bias towards threat is implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety
disorders. We examined the neural correlates of threat bias in anxious and nonanxious …

Neural time course of threat-related attentional bias and interference in panic and obsessive–compulsive disorders

SJ Thomas, CJ Gonsalvez, SJ Johnstone - Biological psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
Attentional biases to threat are considered central to anxiety disorders, however
physiological evidence of their nature and time course is lacking. Event-related potentials …

Attentional threat biases and their role in anxiety: A neurophysiological perspective

MJ Wieser, A Keil - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the most important function of selective attention is the efficient and accurate
detection and identification of cues associated with threat. However, in pathological anxiety …

Heterogeneity of the anxiety-related attention bias: A review and working model for future research

TA Dennis-Tiwary, AK Roy… - Clinical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

There's more to anxiety than meets the eye: Isolating threat-related attentional engagement and disengagement biases.

G Sheppes, R Luria, K Fukuda, JJ Gross - Emotion, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Threat-related attentional biases represent a basic survival mechanism. These biases
include an engagement bias involving rapid direction of attention toward threat and a …

When time slows down: The influence of threat on time perception in anxiety

Y Bar-Haim, A Kerem, D Lamy, D Zakay - Cognition and emotion, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Here, we explored the effect of exposure to threat versus neutral stimuli on time perception
in anxious (n= 29) and non-anxious (n= 29) individuals using predictions from the attentional …

Electrocortical evidence for rapid allocation of attention to threat in the dot-probe task

ES Kappenman, A MacNamara… - Social cognitive and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Threatening stimuli have been shown to preferentially capture attention using a range of
tasks and measures. However, attentional bias to threat has not typically been found in …

Neurophysiological mechanisms in the emotional modulation of attention: the interplay between threat sensitivity and attentional control

TA Dennis, CC Chen - Biological psychology, 2007 - Elsevier
Processing task-irrelevant emotional information may compromise attention performance,
particularly among those showing elevated threat sensitivity. If threat-sensitive individuals …

Do not look away! Spontaneous frontal EEG theta/beta ratio as a marker for cognitive control over attention to mild and high threat

A Angelidis, M Hagenaars, D van Son… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Low spontaneous EEG theta/beta ratio (TBR) is associated with greater
executive control. Their role in regulation of attentional bias for stimuli of different threat …