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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 298-304Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797609359624
Keywords
trait anxiety; state anxiety; attention network test; ANT
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Anxiety modulates the functioning of attention. Although the existence of this relationship is clear, its nature is still poorly defined. Added are the facts that different types of anxiety-state or trait-may influence attention differently and that attention is not a unitary system. We studied the influence of such types of anxiety by means of a task that, using emotionally neutral information, assesses the efficiency of three attentional networks: orienting, alerting, and executive control. Results showed a double dissociation. Trait anxiety was related to deficiencies in the executive control network, but state anxiety was associated with an overfunctioning of the alerting and orienting networks.
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