What does the dot-probe task measure? A reverse correlation analysis of electrocortical activity. [PDF]
Psychophysiology, 2018 AbstractThe dot‐probe task is considered a gold standard for assessing the intrinsic attentive selection of one of two lateralized visual cues, measured by the response time to a subsequent, lateralized response probe. However, this task has recently been associated with poor reliability and conflicting results.
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Empirical recommendations for improving the stability of the dot-probe task in clinical research. [PDF]
Psychol Assess, 2015 The dot-probe task has been widely used in research to produce an index of biased attention based on reaction times (RTs). Despite its popularity, very few published studies have examined psychometric properties of the task, including test-retest reliability, and no previous study has examined reliability in clinically anxious samples or systematically
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The human body odor compound androstadienone leads to anger-dependent effects in an emotional Stroop but not dot-probe task using human faces. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The androgen derivative androstadienone is a substance found in human sweat and thus is a putative human chemosignal. Androstadienone has been studied with respect to effects on mood states, attractiveness ratings, physiological and neural activation ...
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Avoidance of Bereavement-Related Stimuli in Chinese Individuals Experiencing Prolonged Grief: Evidence from a Dot-Probe Task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Background: Attentional bias refers to a preference for (e.g., vigilance) or a shifting away (e.g., avoidance) of one’s focus with respect to specific stimuli.
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Reliability of attention bias and attention bias variability to climate change images in the dot-probe task. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century, which is perhaps why information about climate change has been found to capture observers’ attention.
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Eye-size effects in the dot-probe task: Greater sclera exposure predicts delayed disengagement from fearful faces. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Fearful facial expressions are nonverbal and biologically salient signals of potential threat that automatically hold, capture, and direct observers’ attention.
Aday JS, Fang L, Carlson JM.
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Attentional Bias Is Associated with Negative Emotions in Problematic Users of Social Media as Measured by a Dot-Probe Task. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Objective: Social media (SM) have flourished and are affecting human lives on an unprecedented scale. Problematic social media use (PSMU) is a recently emerging problematic behavior that affects both physical and mental health.
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Context-dependent amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during the dot-probe task varies by irritability and attention bias to angry faces. [PDF]
Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 Irritability, defined as proneness to anger, is among the most common reasons youth are seen for psychiatric care. Youth with irritability demonstrate aberrant processing of anger-related stimuli; however, the neural mechanisms remain unknown. We applied
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Pareidolic faces receive prioritized attention in the dot-probe task
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023 Face pareidolia occurs when random or ambiguous inanimate objects are perceived as faces. While real faces automatically receive prioritized attention compared with nonface objects, it is unclear whether pareidolic faces similarly receive special attention. We hypothesized that, given the evolutionary importance of broadly detecting animacy, pareidolic
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Psychometric Properties of COVID-19 Dot-probe Task in Iranian Adults [PDF]
Practice in Clinical Psychology, 2021 Objective: After the COVID-19 outbreak, corona anxiety has become prevalent all over the world. To understand and treat this type of anxiety, researchers have examined its relationship with attentional bias, a phenomenon closely associated with other types of anxiety. The dot-probe task is a common instrument used for the evaluation of attentional bias.
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