A developmental angle to understanding the mechanisms of biased cognitions in social anxiety

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Haller, Simone P W ^a   Kadosh, Kathrin Cohen ^a   Lau, Jennifer Y F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Children and adolescents; Cognitive bias; fMRI; Interpretation; Neurocognitive development; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

EID: 84904679845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00846     Document Type: Article

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