Using eye tracking methodology in children with anxiety disorders

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 129-149

  In Albon, Tina ^a   Schneider, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessing attention bias and their limitations; Association of anxiety and attention; Dot probe paradigm; Emotional Stroop task and dot probe paradigm reliability and validity; Eye tracker in anxiety research; Eye tracking methods; Eye tracking studies in anxious children and adolescents; Information processing approach competition within processing system between streams of information; Stroop tasks, demonstrating increased reaction time (RT) to colour name threatening or fear related words or pictures; Using eye tracking methodology in children with anxiety disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886112945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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