Affective attention under cognitive load: Reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Berggren, Nick ^a   Richards, Anne ^a   Taylor, Joseph ^a   Derakshan, Nazanin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84933675207     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00188     Document Type: Article

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