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Open AccessCan templates-for-rejection suppress real-world affective objects in visual search?
Previous evidence has suggested that feature-based templates-for-rejection can be maintained in working memory to suppress matching features in the environment. Currently, this effect has only been demonstrate...
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Quality of working life can protect against cognitive and emotional vulnerability in women living with metastatic breast cancer: a cross-sectional study
Research focusing on the cognitive and emotional health of women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is limited. The focal aim of the current study was to explore how quality of working life was related to glo...
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Open AccessUsing clustering algorithms to examine the association between working memory training trajectories and therapeutic outcomes among psychiatric and healthy populations
Working memory (WM) training has gained interest due to its potential to enhance cognitive functioning and reduce symptoms of mental disorders. Nevertheless, inconsistent results suggest that individual differ...
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The Effects of Stoic Training and Adaptive Working Memory Training on Emotional Vulnerability in High Worriers
Previous research has indicated a causal relationship between attentional control and anxiety with literature finding that attentional control training combined with mindfulness meditation may lead to cognitiv...
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Reduced Anxiety Following Mindfulness and Adaptive Working Memory Training in Women with Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a life-threatening disease that leaves survivors vulnerable to clinical levels of psychological disorder. Expanding on recent research that indicates both mindfulness and working memory traini...
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Working Memory Training in Relation to Anxiety, Stress, and Motivation
Interventions for improving working memory (WM) can be used to reduce anxiety-related symptoms. Here, we examine how WM training can impact trait anxiety and test anxiety for upcoming examinations, and the rol...
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Interactions of emotion and anxiety on visual working memory performance
It is a widely observed finding that emotion and anxiety interact; highly stressed or anxious individuals show robust attentional biases towards external negative information. More generally, research has sugg...
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Fear makes you stronger: Responding to feared animal targets in visual search
To investigate whether fear affects the strength with which responses are made, 12 animal-fearful individuals (five snake fearful and seven spider fearful) were instructed to decide as quickly as possible whet...
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Predicting and manipulating the incidence of inattentional blindness
Inattentional blindness (IB) occurs when an observer, who is engaged in a resource-consuming task, fails to notice an unexpected although salient stimulus appearing in their visual field. The incidence of IB i...
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Effects of state anxiety on performance using a task-switching paradigm: An investigation of attentional control theory
Low- and high-anxious participants performed arithmetical tasks under task-switching or nontask-switching conditions. These tasks were low or high in complexity. The task on each trial was either explicitly cu...
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Effects of anxiety on task switching: Evidence from the mixed antisaccade task
According to the attentional control theory of anxiety (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), anxiety impairs performance on cognitive tasks that involve the shifting function of working memory. This hyp...