Application of cognitive neuroscience techniques to the study of anxiety-related processing biases in children

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 183-205

  Pérez Edgar, Koraly ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Application of cognitive neuroscience techniques to study of anxiety related processing biases in children; Application of ERP and fMRI Techniques in child populations; Cognitive neuroscience techniques positron emission tomography (PET), magnetoencephalography (MEG), near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), scalp recorded; EEG ERP recordings, involving application of electrodes to scalp; Event related potentials (ERPs); Image brain function when studying anxiety related processing biases in children; Insights crucial in improving our ability identifying early risk for anxiety I; Integrating new data on timing (via ERP) and neural structures (via fMRI) of processing; Neural correlates of threat related attention bias in anxiety; Notion that threat related cognitive biases role in individual differences in anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959827983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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