Anxiety, a benefit and detriment to cognition: Behavioral and magnetoencephalographic evidence from a mixed-saccade task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 257-267

  Cornwell, Brian R ^a   Mueller, Sven C ^b   Kaplan, Raphael ^a   Grillon, Christian ^a   Ernst, Monique ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Beta oscillation; Magnetoencephalography; Saccadic eye movement; Stimulus driven attention; Theta oscillation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 84856777009     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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