ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2020
Fear not! Anxiety biases attentional enhancement of threat without impairing working memory filtering.
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- Development and validation of the performance evaluation anxiety task: a computerized task to identify functionally significant test anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Alterations in working memory maintenance of fearful face distractors in depressed participants: An ERP study.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Modulation of rhythmic visual stimulation on left-right attentional asymmetry.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Distinct Effects of Anxiety and Depression on Updating Emotional Information in Working Memory.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Auditory and cross-modal attentional bias toward positive natural sounds: Behavioral and ERP evidence.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neutral and threatening distracter word stimuli are unnecessarily stored in working memory but do not differ in their degree of working memory storage.Biological psychology · 2021Article
- Estimating the statistical power to detect set-size effects in contralateral delay activity.Psychophysiology · 2021Article
- The relationship between worry and attentional bias to threat cues signalling controllable and uncontrollable dangers.PloS one · 2021Article
- Reduced Attentional Control in Older Adults Leads to Deficits in Flexible Prioritization of Visual Working Memory.Brain sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Individuals with anxiety have attentional biases toward threat-related distractors. This deficit in attentional control has been shown to impact visual working memory (VWM) filtering efficiency, as anxious individuals inappropriately store threatening distractors in VWM. It remains unclear, however, whether this mis-allocation of memory resources is due to inappropriate attentional enhancement of threatening distractors, or to a failure in suppression. Here, we used a systematically lateralized VWM task with fearful and neutral faces to examine event-related potentials related to attentional selection (N2pc), suppression (P
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