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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The clinical relevance of attentional bias in substance use disorders [PDF]
Individuals with substance use disorders typically show an attentional bias for substance-related cues: Those cues are able to grab and hold the attention, in preference to other cues in the environment.
Field, M. (Matt) +2 more
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No preconscious attentional bias towards itch in healthy individuals.
Rapidly attending towards potentially harmful stimuli to prevent possible damage to the body is a critical component of adaptive behavior. Research suggests that individuals display an attentional bias, i.e., preferential allocation of attention, for ...
Jennifer M Becker +8 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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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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Attentional biases for food stimuli in external eaters: Possible mechanism for stress-induced eating? [PDF]
External eaters reportedly increase snack intake when stressed, which could be due to an attentional shift towards food stimuli. Attentional biases for food stimuli were tested in high and low external eaters in stress and control conditions, using a ...
Boon +24 more
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Effect of vicarious fear learning on children's heart rate responses and attentional bias for novel animals [PDF]
Research with children has shown that vicarious learning can result in changes to 2 of Lang's (1968) 3 anxiety response systems: subjective report and behavioral avoidance.
Askew, Chris +2 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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ContextThe recent development of “serious games” has produced encouraging results in maintaining adherence to health-related interventions. In alcohol research, several studies have shown that computerized training on attentional bias decreases alcohol ...
Valentin Flaudias +5 more
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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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