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) …

The aim of the present study was to question untested assumptions about the nature of the
expression of Attentional Bias (AB) towards and away from threat stimuli. We tested the idea …

Cognitive models of anxiety propose that selective attention to negative information plays a
causal role in heightened anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction. However, there has been …

Advances in the neuroscientific understanding of bodily autonomic awareness, or
interoception, have led to the hypothesis that human trait anxiety sensitivity (AS)—the fear of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previous research suggests that attention bias toward
threat contributes to the development and maintenance of anxiety. The current study extends …

Many neurocognitive models of anxiety emphasize the importance of a hyper-responsive
threat-detection system centered on the amygdala, with recent accounts incorporating a role …

Functionally, anxiety serves to increase vigilance towards aversive stimuli and improve the
ability to detect and avoid danger. We have recently shown, for instance, that anxiety …

Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

Attentional bias towards threat reliably correlates with clinical anxiety status as well as
elevated trait anxiety. Although such findings have led many to posit a potential causative or …

Research in experimental psychopathology and cognitive theories of anxiety highlight threat-
related attention biases (ABs) and underpin the development of a computer-delivered …