Attentional bias towards negative stimuli in healthy individuals and the effects of trait anxiety.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate the time course of attentional bias for negative information in healthy individuals and to assess the associated influence of trait anxiety. Thirty-eight healthy volunteers performed an emotional dot-probe task with pairs of negative and neutral scenes, presented for either 1 or 2 s and followed by a target placed at the previous location of either negative or neutral stimulus. Analyses included eye movements during the presentation of the scenes and response times associated with target localization. In a second step, analyses focused on the influence of trait anxiety. While there was no significant difference at the behavioral level, the eye-tracking data revealed that negative information held longer attention than neutral stimuli once fixated. This initi

SUBMITTER: Veerapa E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7367300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature