Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Cognitive Modification of Attentional Bias

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 919-925

  Browning, Michael ^a   Holmes, Emily A ^a   Murphy, Susannah E ^a   Goodwin, Guy M ^a   Harmer, Catherine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; attention; cognitive bias; cognitive training; emotion; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951622513     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.10.031     Document Type: Article

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