Trait anxiety and autonomic indicators of the processing of threatening information: A cued S1-S2 paradigm

Biological Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-66

  Schwerdtfeger, Andreas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; Anxiety; Attentional bias; Evoked heart rate responses; S1 S2 paradigm; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644666369     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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