Life is… great! : emotional attention during instructed and uninstructed ambiguity resolution in relation to depressive symptoms [PDF]
Attention and interpretation biases are closely involved in depression-related processing of emotional material. However, it is unclear whether attention and interpretation biases reflect a processing tendency (i.e., driven by schemas or prior learning ...
de Putter, Laura +4 more
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Statistical regularities bias overt attention [PDF]
A previous study employing the additional singleton paradigm showed that a singleton distractor that appeared more often in one specific location interfered less with target search than when it appeared at any other location. These findings suggested that through statistical learning the location that was likely to contain a distractor was suppressed ...
Wang, B., Samara, I., Theeuwes, J.
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Identifying neurocognitive mechanisms underlying optimism bias is essential to understand its benefits for well-being and mental health. The combined cognitive biases hypothesis suggests that biases (e.g., in expectancies and attention) interact and ...
Laura Kress, Tatjana Aue
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Motion adaptation and attention: A critical review and meta-analysis [PDF]
The motion aftereffect (MAE) provides a behavioural probe into the mechanisms underlying motion perception, and has been used to study the effects of attention on motion processing.
Adams, Wendy J. +3 more
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Interpretation of ambiguous situations: evidence for a dissociation between social and physical threat in Williams syndrome [PDF]
There is increasing evidence that Williams syndrome (WS) is associated with elevated anxiety that is non-social in nature, including generalised anxiety and fears.
A Ewart +51 more
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Anxiety-Related Attention Bias in Four- to Eight-Year-Olds: An Eye-Tracking Study
(1) Background: There is evidence of an attention bias–anxiety relationship in children, but lack of appropriate methods has limited the number of studies with children younger than eight years old.
Suzannah Stuijfzand +3 more
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Attention bias dynamics and symptom severity during and following CBT for social anxiety disorder [PDF]
Objective: Threat-related attention bias figures prominently in contemporary accounts of the maintenance of anxiety disorders, yet longitudinal intervention research relating attention bias to anxiety symptom severity is limited.
Beevers, CG +7 more
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Attentional bias in eating disorders [PDF]
AbstractObjective:To examine the relationship between eating disorders and attentional biases.Method:The first study comprised 23 female patients with clinical eating disorders, women with high levels ofanxiety (n = 19), and three female normal control groups comprising low (n = 31), moderate (n = 21), or high levels of shape concern (n = 23).
Shafran, R +4 more
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Attention training through gaze-contingent feedback: effects on reappraisal and negative emotions [PDF]
Reappraisal is central to emotion regulation but its mechanisms are unclear. This study tested the theoretical prediction that emotional attention bias is linked to reappraisal of negative emotion-eliciting stimuli and subsequent emotional responding ...
Everaert, Jonas +2 more
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Reward predictions bias attentional selection [PDF]
Attention selects stimuli for perceptual and cognitive processing according to an adaptive selection schedule. It has long been known that attention selects stimuli that are task relevant or perceptually salient. Recent evidence has shown that stimuli previously associated with reward persistently capture attention involuntarily, even when they are no ...
Anderson, Brian A. +2 more
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