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SUBMITTER: Pike AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7387660 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pike Alexandra C AC Printzlau Frida A B FAB von Lautz Alexander H AH Harmer Catherine J CJ Stokes Mark G MG Noonan MaryAnn P MP
Frontiers in psychology 20200722
Mood and anxiety disorders are associated with deficits in attentional control involving emotive and non-emotive stimuli. Current theories focus on impaired attentional inhibition of distracting stimuli in producing these deficits. However, standard attention tasks struggle to separate distractor inhibition from target facilitation. Here, we investigate whether distractor inhibition underlies these deficits using neutral stimuli in a behavioral task specifically designed to tease apart these two ...[more]