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New perspectives in attentional control theory
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Attentional control theory is developed to explicate the relationship between anxiety and motivation and implications for theoretical predictions and alternative theoretical accounts are discussed.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 562 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attentional control & Cognitive neuroscience.read more
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Performance-evaluation threat does not adversely affect verbal working memory in high test-anxious persons
TL;DR: The authors examined whether the verbal working memory of high and low test-anxious students differed under performance-evaluative threat and found that high test anxious students performed worse than low test anxious students in a backward digit span task under low or high threat conditions.
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Attentional control deficits in social anxiety: Investigating inhibition and shifting functions using a mixed antisaccade paradigm.
TL;DR: This study suggests that SA individuals demonstrate diminished efficiency of inhibition function but show no significant impairment of shifting function, however, in the mixed-task condition, SA individuals may exhibit an overall reduction in processing efficiency due to the higher task difficulty.
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Attentional bias toward reading in reluctant readers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a print exposure checklist to identify reluctant readers in primary education (Grades 4 and 5) and secondary education (grades 7 and 8) in the Netherlands and found that RR students scoring zero or below on a print-expansions checklist were less proficient readers with a more negative attitude toward reading as compared to more enthusiastic readers, and also showed an attentional bias toward reading.
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The effect of increasing state anxiety on autobiographical memory specificity and future thinking
TL;DR: These findings provide first evidence of the causal impact of an anxiety induction on the ability to retrieve specific AM, as well as whether changes in rumination and executive functioning mediate any observed effects.
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Testing a Cognitive Pathway Between Temperament and Childhood Anxiety
TL;DR: The authors examined the associations between fearful temperament, attentional control, worry, and anxiety in a cross-sectional sample of 152 parent-child dyads between the ages of 7 and 12 years old.
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The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.
Akira Miyake,Naomi P. Friedman,Michael J. Emerson,Alexander H. Witzki,Amy Howerter,Tor D. Wager +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity ofExecutive functions and that latent variable analysis is a useful approach to studying the organization and roles of executive functions.
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Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory.
TL;DR: Attentional control theory is an approach to anxiety and cognition representing a major development of Eysenck and Calvo's (1992) processing efficiency theory and may not impair performance effectiveness when it leads to the use of compensatory strategies (e.g., enhanced effort; increased use of processing resources).
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The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates
TL;DR: A questionnaire measure of self-reported failures in perception, memory, and motor function, the most plausible view is that cognitive failure makes a person vulnerable to showing bad effects of stress, rather than itself resulting from stress.
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Anxiety and Performance: The Processing Efficiency Theory
TL;DR: Theories of anxiety and performance need to address at least two major issues: (1) the complexity and apparent inconsistency of the findings; and (2) the conceptual definition of task difficulty as mentioned in this paper.
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The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: a latent-variable analysis.
Naomi P. Friedman,Akira Miyake +1 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the term inhibition has been overextended and that researchers need to be more specific when discussing and measuring inhibition-related functions.