Plasticity in attention: Implications for stress response in children

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 450-461

  Eldar, Sharon ^a   Ricon, Tsameret ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention Bias; Children; Faces; Threat; Training

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PLASTICITY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRESS; TRAINING;

ANGER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 40949165247     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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