The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Probe Task: Opportunities for Metascientific Learning
Seeds of Science, 2022 Much of the extensive literature on spatial attentional bias is built on measurements using the dot-probe task. In recent years, concerns have been raised about the psychometric properties of bias scores derived from this task. The goal of the current paper is to look ahead and evaluate possible responses of the field to this situation from a ...
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No Evidence of Reliability Across 36 Variations of the Emotional Dot-Probe Task in 9,600 Participants. [PDF]
Clin Psychol SciThe emotional dot-probe task is a widely used measure of attentional bias to threat. Recent work suggests, however, that subtraction-based behavioral measures of emotional dot-probe performance may not be appropriate for measuring such attentional biases
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TRANSFERABLE INHIBITION OF DIRECT SUPPRESSION: EVIDENCE FROM A DOT-PROBE TASK
PSYCHOLOGIA, 2021 Previous studies on the Think/No-Think (TNT) paradigm have demonstrated that retrieval stopping causes later forgetting. Although precise mechanisms of this retrieval stopping effect have come under scrutiny, a recent study (Hertel & Hayes, 2015) has provided a signpost finding; that is, in a flanker task subsequent to a TNT task, ratings of words ...
Nishiyama, Satoru, Saito, Satoru
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Fleeting reliability in the dot-probe task [PDF]
Psychological Research, 2017 In a dot-probe task, two cues-one emotional and one neutral-are followed by a probe in one of their locations. Faster responses to probes co-located with the emotional stimulus are taken as evidence of attentional bias. Several studies indicate that such attentional bias measures have poor reliability, even though ERP studies show that people reliably ...
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Behavioral and ERP measures of attentional bias to threat in the dot-probe task: Poor reliability and lack of correlation with anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The dot-probe task is often considered a gold standard in the field for investigating attentional bias to threat. However, serious issues with the task have been raised.
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Attentional Bias Modification in Virtual Reality - A VR-Based Dot-Probe Task With 2D and 3D Stimuli. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 Background Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias toward threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology and three-dimensional stimuli with a dot-probe task to evaluate the ...
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Electrocortical evidence for rapid allocation of attention to threat in the dot-probe task. [PDF]
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2015 Threatening stimuli have been shown to preferentially capture attention using a range of tasks and measures. However, attentional bias to threat has not typically been found in unselected individuals using behavioral measures in the dot-probe task, one of the most common ways of examining attention to threat.
Kappenman ES, MacNamara A, Proudfit GH.
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Trial-level bias score versus mean bias score: Comparison of the reliability and external validity using dot-probe task among daily smokers. [PDF]
Addict Behav, 2022 Yang MJ, Borges AM, Emery NN, Leyro TM.
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Drug-Specific Global Attentional Bias in Females with Drug Use Disorder: Response Slowing Under Short but Not Long Cue Exposure [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Attentional bias toward drug-related cues is a characteristic of drug dependence and plays a detrimental role during drug withdrawal. The present study examined attentional bias in female individuals with drug dependence.
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Non-threatening other-race faces capture visual attention: evidence from a dot-probe task. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Visual attentional biases towards other-race faces have been attributed to the perceived threat value of such faces. It is possible, however, that they reflect the relative visual novelty of other-race faces.
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