How do we find what we are looking for? Even when the desired target is in the current field
of view, we need to search because fundamental limits on visual processing make it …

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 …

There is substantial evidence that heightened anxiety vulnerability is characterized by
increased selective attention to threatening information. The reliability of this anxiety-linked …

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 …

Happy facial expressions are recognized faster and more accurately than other expressions
in categorization tasks, whereas detection in visual search tasks is widely believed to be …

Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often
used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …

Previous research demonstrated that associating a stimulus with value (eg, monetary
reward) can increase its salience and induce a value-driven attentional capture when it …

In a valence induction task, one color acquired positive valence by indicating the chance to
win money (in the case of fast and correct responses), and a different color acquired …