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 …

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 …

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 …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

Highlights•Anxious individuals and those at risk show attention biases to irrelevant
threats.•These attention biases are related to imbalanced prefrontal-limbic-sensory …

Beginning in the 1980s, experimental psychopathologists increasingly adapted the concepts
and paradigms of cognitive science to elucidate information-processing abnormalities that …

Attentional biases toward threats (ABTs) have been described in high anxious individuals
and in clinical samples whereas they have been rarely reported in non-clinical samples (,;) …

A considerable volume of research has demonstrated an anxiety-linked attentional bias
characterized by selective processing of threat stimuli. The last decade has seen growing …

Extensive research has demonstrated the effects of threat-related attentional bias on anxiety
and stress-related disorders. This review summarizes recent findings from clinical affective …

Rapid and accurate detection of threat is adaptive. Yet, threat-related attentional biases,
including hypervigilance, avoidance, and attentional disengagement delays, may contribute …