Effects of anxiety on task switching: evidence from the mixed antisaccade task.
According to the attentional control theory of anxiety (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, and Calvo, 2007), anxiety impairs performance on cognitive tasks that involve the shifting function of working memory. This hypothesis was tested using a mixed antisaccade paradigm, in which participants performed si...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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