Beginning in the 1980s, experimental psychopathologists increasingly adapted the concepts
and paradigms of cognitive science to elucidate information-processing abnormalities that …

Rapid and accurate detection of threat is adaptive. Yet, threat-related attentional biases,
including hypervigilance, avoidance, and attentional disengagement delays, may contribute …

Simple Summary Good animal welfare requires minimizing suffering and promoting positive
experiences. To achieve this, we need reliable indicators of animals' psychological states. In …

Attention helps us to be aware of the external world, and this may be especially important
when a threat stimulus predicts an aversive outcome. Electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha …

Anxiety-related attention bias (AB) has been studied for several decades as a clinically
relevant output of the dynamic and complex threat-detection and-response system. Despite …

Although attentional bias (AB) is considered a key characteristic of anxiety problems, the
psychometric properties of most AB measures are either problematic or unknown. We …

Traditional convenience sampling methods relying solely on student participants have
raised concerns about the external validity of psychology research findings. Crowdsourced …

Attention bias is the tendency to prioritize the processing of certain types of stimuli over
others. At any given moment, an individual's senses can perceive countless stimuli in the …

Current theories propose that anxiety adversely impacts working memory (WM) by restricting
WM capacity and interfering with efficient filtering of task‐irrelevant information. The current …

Humans are constantly exposed to a rich tapestry of visual information in a potentially
changing environment. To cope with the computational burden this engenders, our …