We investigated the electrophysiological markers of attentional bias for threat in anxiety. Low-
anxiety and high-anxiety individuals performed a spatial-cueing task, in which an emotional …

Clinical anxiety impairs decision making, and high trait anxiety interferes with learning. Less
understood are the effects of temporary anxious states on learning and decision making in …

Appropriately attending to threatening environmental stimuli is evolutionarily adaptive and
crucial for survival. This study revealed that nonconscious attentional modulation of disgust …

Background: This study investigated attentional allocation in 39 Vietnam combat veterans,
25 with and 14 without posttraumatic stress disorder, assessing P300 amplitudes and …

Two decades of research conducted to date has examined selective visual attention to threat
and reward stimuli as a function of individual differences in anxiety using the dot-probe task …

The integrity of decision-making under emotionally evocative circumstances is critical to
navigating complex environments, and dysfunctions in these processes may play an …

Dispositional anxiety is a well-established risk factor for the development of psychiatric
disorders along the internalizing spectrum, including anxiety and depression. Importantly …

Biased competition models of selective attention suggest that attentional competition is
influenced both by bottom‐up sensory mechanisms sensitive to stimulus salience and top …

Visual search paradigms have provided evidence for the enhanced capture of attention by
threatening faces. Especially in social anxiety, hypervigilance for threatening faces has been …

An efficient detection of threat is crucial for survival and requires an appropriate allocation of
attentional resources toward the location of potential danger. Recent neuroimaging studies …