Predictive Attentional Bias Modification Induces Stimulus-Evoked Attentional Bias for Threat [PDF]
Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) aims to modulate attentional biases, but questions remain about its efficacy and there may be new variants yet to explore.
Thomas E. Gladwin +2 more
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The current study examined the effects of a reward associative learning procedure and the traditional threat-avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias. In reward training, participants were given high rewards for correct responses to neutral
Wen Xiao +3 more
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Attention bias modification: the Emperor's new suit? [PDF]
A series of primarily laboratory-based studies found attention bias modification in socially anxious participants to lead to reduced anxiety. It is argued that the failure to replicate the positive results of attention bias modification in the study of ...
Emmelkamp Paul MG
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Attentional Bias Modification Training for Itch: A Proof-of-Principle Study in Healthy Individuals [PDF]
Itch draws our attention to allow imposing action against bodily harm (e.g., remove insects). At the same time, itch is found to interfere with ongoing tasks and daily life goals.
Antoinette I. M. van Laarhoven +10 more
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Subliminal attention bias modification training in socially anxious individuals [PDF]
Anxious individuals demonstrate threat-related attention biases both when threat stimuli are presented within conscious awareness and when presented below awareness threshold.
Keren eMaoz +5 more
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Anxiety and attention to threat: cognitive mechanisms and treatment with attention bias modification
Anxiety disorders are common and difficult to treat. Some cognitive models of anxiety propose that attention bias to threat causes and maintains anxiety. This view led to the development of a computer-delivered treatment: attention bias modification (ABM)
Bradley, Brendan, Mogg, Karin
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BackgroundAdvances in experimental psychology have highlighted the need to modify underlying automatic cognitive biases, such as attentional biases. The effectiveness of bias modification has been well studied for substance use disorders.
Zhang, Melvyn +4 more
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Measuring and Modifying Threat-Related Attention Bias in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Attention Bias Modification Study. [PDF]
Background: Dominant models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) implicate threat‐related attention biases in both the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress symptoms. However, the ability to better understand and modify threat‐related attention biases in PTSD has been hampered by the low reliability of attention bias measures more ...
Rubin M +6 more
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Change in negative attention bias mediates the association between attention bias modification training and depression symptom improvement. [PDF]
Attention bias modification training (ABMT) is purported to reduce depression by targeting and modifying an attentional bias for sadness-related stimuli. However, few tests of this hypothesis have been completed. Method: The current study examined whether change in attentional bias mediated a previously reported association between ABMT condition ...
Beevers CG +4 more
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Efficacy of Attention Bias Modification in Individuals with Depression: a Meta-analysis [PDF]
Background Attention bias modification (ABM) , a newly emerging focus in emotion modification research, is a treatment to reduce individuals' attention bias toward negative stimuli to improve their abnormal cognition via repeated computer-based ...
Haisha XIA, Xiaobo LIU, Xinyun GOU, Wenjing TANG, Dongling ZHONG, Yuxi LI, Zhong ZHENG, Juan LI, Rongjiang JIN
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