Attentional bias towards smartphone stimuli is associated with decreased interoceptive awareness and increased physiological reactivity.

ABSTRACT: Excessive smartphone use has been linked to negative psychological outcomes and may also be associated with cognitive impairments and disruptions in mind-body interaction, though the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated attentional bias towards marginal smartphone stimuli and its relationship with interoceptive awareness and physiological cue reactivity in healthy young adults. Fifty-eight participants completed a letter detection task with varying perceptual loads, during which task-irrelevant smartphone-related or scrambled images were presented in the background. Cardiac responses were recorded to assess physiological reactivity. Participants also completed two questionnaires for interoceptive awareness and self-report smartphone addiction. Using a designed and au

SUBMITTER: Haruki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11914067 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature