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A Cognitive Model of Selective Processing in Anxiety
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“Several models suggest that anxiety biases attention towards threat-related stimuli by increasing the output from an amygdala-centred threat evaluation system”
From Short-term serotonergic but not noradrenergic antidepressant administration reduces attentional vigilance to threat in healthy volunteers (2009) · cites this paper as Mathews and Mackintosh, 1998
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“In short, there is strong evidence for what has been proposed by major theories on emotion processing (Mathews & Mackintosh, 1998; Öhman & Mineka, 2001): stimuli associated with negative valence have a mandatory and involuntary effect on the allocation of covert and overt attention, which cannot be fully controlled in a top-down effortful fashion.”
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“An automatic threat evaluation system (TES) makes people vigilant to potentially threatening information (50).”
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“AB in threat-distractor interference (e.g., [ 5 0 2 _ T D $ D I F F ] on the emotional Stroop task) reflects conflict between threat salience-driven and goal-directed processes [26,30,31,55,59].”
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“Threat hypersensitivity of automatic salience evaluation and switching in anxiety may trigger inhibition/interruption of task-related activity, as well as switching of attention priorities from goal-directed processing to threat salience-driven processing (Figure 2), which impairs task performance”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B.
- Affiliations
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- ORCID
- Mackintosh, Bundy
- Venue
- Cognitive Therapy and Research
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 539-560
- ISSN
- 0147-5916 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2819
- OpenAlex
- W2170408452
- Cited by
- 756
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Cognitive Therapy and Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- anxiety, selective attention, threat processing, attentional bias, interpretation bias, attentional competition, voluntary effort, evolutionary perspective, aversive conditioning, extinction
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