Attention is preferentially deployed toward those stimuli which are threatening and those which are surprising. The current paper examines the intersection of these phenomena; how do expectations about the threatening nature of stimuli influence the deployment of attention? The predictions tested were that individuals would direct attention toward stimuli which were expected to be threatening (regardless of whether they were or not) and toward stimuli which were surprising. As anxiety has been associated with deficient control of attention to threat, it was additionally predicted that high levels of trait anxiety would be associated with deficits in the use of threat-expectation to guide attention. During fMRI scanning, 29 healthy volunteer...
Attentional control refers to the regulatory processes that ensure that our actions are in accordanc...
Cognitive models suggest that anxiety is associated with the presence of a highly sensitised threat ...
The ability to process stimuli that convey potential threat, under conditions of limited attentional...
Two experiments evaluated differential predictions from two cognitive formulations of anxiety. Accor...
Biases in information processing undoubtedly play an important role in the maintenance of emotion an...
Recent behavioral observations suggest an influence of prior expectancies on attention to neutral ta...
Rapid and efficient judgments about the significance of social threat are important for species surv...
Debate continues as to the automaticity of the amygdala’s response to threat. Accounts taking a stro...
Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB) in the...
Behavioural evidence indicates that individual differences in anxiety influence the response to faci...
Fear is elicited by imminent threat and leads to phasic fear responses with selective attention, whe...
Findings from fear-conditioning studies in rats and functional neuroimaging with human volunteers ha...
Rapid and efficient judgments about the significance of social threat are important for species surv...
Recent behavioral observations suggest an influence of prior expectancies on attention to neutral ta...
We investigated the attentional bias for threat in selected high and low trait-anxious participants ...
Attentional control refers to the regulatory processes that ensure that our actions are in accordanc...
Cognitive models suggest that anxiety is associated with the presence of a highly sensitised threat ...
The ability to process stimuli that convey potential threat, under conditions of limited attentional...
Two experiments evaluated differential predictions from two cognitive formulations of anxiety. Accor...
Biases in information processing undoubtedly play an important role in the maintenance of emotion an...
Recent behavioral observations suggest an influence of prior expectancies on attention to neutral ta...
Rapid and efficient judgments about the significance of social threat are important for species surv...
Debate continues as to the automaticity of the amygdala’s response to threat. Accounts taking a stro...
Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB) in the...
Behavioural evidence indicates that individual differences in anxiety influence the response to faci...
Fear is elicited by imminent threat and leads to phasic fear responses with selective attention, whe...
Findings from fear-conditioning studies in rats and functional neuroimaging with human volunteers ha...
Rapid and efficient judgments about the significance of social threat are important for species surv...
Recent behavioral observations suggest an influence of prior expectancies on attention to neutral ta...
We investigated the attentional bias for threat in selected high and low trait-anxious participants ...
Attentional control refers to the regulatory processes that ensure that our actions are in accordanc...
Cognitive models suggest that anxiety is associated with the presence of a highly sensitised threat ...
The ability to process stimuli that convey potential threat, under conditions of limited attentional...