Probing the attentional control theory in social anxiety: An emotional saccade task

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 314-322

  Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949141587     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.9.3.314     Document Type: Article

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