ArticleBrain and cognition2017
Relationships among attention networks and physiological responding to threat.
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- Attention to threat in posttraumatic stress disorder as indexed by eye-tracking indices: a systematic review.Psychological medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Bias-contingent attention bias modification and attention control training in treatment of PTSD: a randomized control trial.Psychological medicine · 2019Trial
- The impact of threat of shock-induced anxiety on alerting, orienting, and executive function in women: an ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Investigating the specific domains of the cognitive attentional syndrome that predict posttraumatic stress symptoms: The moderating effect of attentional control.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Modular segregation drives causality of the dynamic oscillatory network responses during threat processing.Brain communications · 2023Article
- The relation of neuroticism to physiological and behavioral stress responses induced by auditory startle.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Media multitasking, depression, and anxiety of college students: Serial mediating effects of attention control and negative information attentional bias.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- A way forward for anxiolytic drug development: Testing candidate anxiolytics with anxiety-potentiated startle in healthy humans.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Individual differences in attentional control explain the differential expression of threat-related attentional bias among those with posttraumatic stress symptomatology and predict symptom maintenance up to one year later.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
- How many blinks are necessary for a reliable startle response? A test using the NPU-threat task.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although researchers have long hypothesized a relationship between attention and anxiety, theoretical and empirical accounts of this relationship have conflicted. We attempted to resolve these conflicts by examining relationships of attentional abilities with responding to predictable and unpredictable threat - related but distinct motivational process implicated in a number of anxiety disorders. Eighty-one individuals completed a behavioral task assessing efficiency of three components of attention - alerting, orienting, and executive control (Attention Network Test - Revised). We also assessed startle responding during anticipation of both predictable, imminent threat (of mild electric shock) and unpredictable contextual threat. Faster alerting and slower disengaging from non-emotional attention cues were related to heightened responding to unpredictable threat, whereas poorer executive control of attention was related to heightened responding to predictable threat. This double dissociation helps to integrate models of attention and anxiety and may be informative for treatment development.
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