The Impact of Anxiety-Inducing Distraction on Cognitive Performance: A Combined Brain Imaging and Personality Investigation

• Ekaterina Denkova,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Gloria Wong,

  Affiliation Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Sanda Dolcos,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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• Keen Sung,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Lihong Wang,

  Affiliation Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Nicholas Coupland,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Florin Dolcos

  * E-mail: fdolcos@uiuc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

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