Abstract:Cognitive models have highlighted attentional and memory biases to negatively valenced emotional stimuli, and their association, in the development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, research has focused mainly on attentional biases towards distracting (not task-relevant) negative stimuli and the links of attentional biases with memory remain underexplored. We manipulated attention during encoding of trauma-irrelevant negative and neutral words and examined the differential rela… Show more
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