The time-course of attentional bias in anxious children and adolescents

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 841-847

  Gamble, Amanda L ^a   Rapee, Ronald M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Child anxiety; Eye movement; Selective attention; Time course

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CHILD; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 68749084601     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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