The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

This meta-analysis investigated whether attentional bias, that is, the preferential allocation of
attention to information that is related to pain, is a ubiquitous phenomenon. We also …

Attention is a key concept in many theories of pain perception. A clinically popular idea is
that pain is more intense in persons who are hypervigilant for or bias their attention to pain …

Attention can be captured automatically by events that are physically salient. Similarly,
emotional stimuli are known to be prioritised by the visual system because of their …

The current study investigated the association between neural engagement with task-
irrelevant images and subsequent interference with target processing using the Emotional …

Some stimuli can orient attentional resources and access awareness even if they appear
outside the focus of voluntary attention. Stimuli with low-level perceptual salience and stimuli …

Background Previous studies demonstrate that anxiety is characterized by biased attention
toward threats, typically measured by differences in motor reaction time to threat and neutral …

Emotional bias, which describes human's asymmetric processing of emotional stimuli,
consists of negativity bias (Increased response to negative over positive stimuli) and …