The effect of fear on attentional processing in a sample of healthy females

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-48

  Finucane, Anne M ^a   Power, Mick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention Network Test (ANT); Emotion; Fear; IAPS

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71249141476     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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