Processing task-irrelevant emotional information may compromise attention performance,
particularly among those showing elevated threat sensitivity. If threat-sensitive individuals …

Background Delineating specific clinical phenotypes of anxiety disorders is a crucial step
toward better classification and understanding of these conditions. The present study sought …

It is unclear how threat‐related attentional biases affect multiple attention systems. This
study used a new modification of a reaction time paradigm to examine whether inter‐trial …

Findings from fear-conditioning studies in rats and functional neuroimaging with human
volunteers have led to the suggestion that the amygdala is involved in the preattentive …

Healthy individuals often exhibit prioritized processing of aversive information, as
manifested in enhanced orientation of attention to threatening stimuli compared with neutral …

We are pleased to contribute a chapter describing our work to this Festschrift for Andrew
Mathews, who has made a major contribution to the evaluation and development of …

It recently has been established within the laboratory that the attentional probe methodology
not only can sensitively assess the threat attentional bias associated with anxiety …

Individuals with high levels of anxiety are hypothesized to have impaired executive control
functions that would otherwise enable efficient filtering of irrelevant information. Pinpointing …

Background Attention bias to threat (selective attention toward threatening stimuli) has been
frequently found in anxiety disorder samples, but its distribution both within and beyond this …

BACKGROUND: The amygdala has been strongly implicated in the processing of threat-
relevant information in specific phobia. However, there is an ongoing debate as to whether …