How preferential is the preferential encoding of threatening stimuli?. Working memory biases in specific anxiety and the Attentional Blink

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 655-670

  Reinecke, Andrea ^a   Rinck, Mike ^b   Becker, Eni S ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Fear of spiders; Phobia; RSVP; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HUMAN; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS;

EID: 41549102080     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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