Fear Conditioning and Attention to Threat: An Integrative Approach to Understanding the Etiology of Anxiety Disorders

Associative Learning and Conditioning Theory: Human and Non-Human Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Oehlberg, Katherine ^a   Mineka, Susan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Attentional biases; Conditioning; Fear

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921783522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735969.003.0020     Document Type: Chapter

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