Abstract
Anxiety disorders are known to disturb the processing of emotional facial expressions (EFE). Notably, attentional biases toward threatening EFE would play a role in the aetiology and the maintenance of anxious disorders. A large amount of studies has approached these questions in adults but studies on children and youth remain rare and their results are less consistent. This paper reviews the data concerning the features and the behavioural, neuroanatomical and neurophysiological correlates of biases in EFE processing in childhood anxiety. The recognition of EFE will also be discussed within the context of cognitive development. Finally, we will put a critical view on this field in order to outline proposals for future research.
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