Failure to filter: Anxious individuals show inefficient gating of threat from working memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Stout, Daniel M ^a   Shackman, Alexander J ^b   Larson, Christine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety Disorders; Attention; Contralateral delay activity (CDA); Emotion cognition interactions; Event related potential (ERP); Individual differences; Trait anxiety; Working Memory

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY GATING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933676527     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00058     Document Type: Article

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