Anxiety-Related Biases in Visual Orienting and Spatial Motor Response Selection Independently Assessed by a Probe-Classification Task

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 393-408

  Schrooten, Martien G S ^a,b   Smulders, Fren T Y ^a   Mogg, Karin ^c   Bradley, Brendan P ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Motor attention; Response selection; Stimulus response compatibility; Visual orienting of attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946822637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.026211     Document Type: Article

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