Preferential processing in anxiety : selective attention & spatial affective simon effects

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Inhibition of return is unimpressed by emotional cues

“…It could be that increased cognitive load during a categorisation decision makes vigilance processes more vulnerable to distraction/attraction by threat, compared to the simpler decision about a target's location, or the even simpler decision that something happened. In an extensive review, Schooten (2007); chapter 1) listed an impressive number of studies using diverging designs, which nevertheless reported differential processing of threat cues/targets. Mogg and Bradley (1999) directly compared classification and position tasks and found that advantages for threat processing were equally strong in both designs.…”