The complex interaction between anxiety and cognition: Insight from spatial and verbal working memory

Anxiety can be distracting, disruptive, and incapacitating. Despite problems with empirical replication of this phenomenon, one fruitful avenue of study has emerged from working memory (WM) experiments where a translational method of anxiety induction (risk of shock) has been shown to disrupt spatia...

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Main Authors: Katherine Elizabeth Vytal, Brian R Cornwell, Nicole Esther Arkin, Allison M Letkiewicz, Christian eGrillon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00093/full