Attention Control, Attentional Bias, and Anxiety

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

Marie Louise Reinholdt-Dunne - Lecturer

    Information processing models propose that attentional bias toward threat-related stimuli play a key role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders (e.g. Mogg & Bradley, 1998). Research further suggests that attention control may moderate this relationship (Derryberry & Reed, 2002; Reinholdt-Dunne et al., 2009). This presentation will cover three experiments on attentional biases in individuals with high and low levels of attention control and trait anxiety, and one experiment which focuses on the association between different measures of attention control. Experiment one investigated interference for threat-related stimuli in persons with high and low levels of attention control and trait anxiety using emotional Stroop tasks with faces and words. Experiment two assessed bias for threat in moderately and low anxious children. The study used an emotional Stroop task and a visual probe paradigm with faces. Experiment three monitored eye-movements during a saccade task with faces in individuals with high and low levels of attention control and trait anxiety. Experiment four used an exploratory factor analysis to examine the Attentional Control Scale (ACS; Derryberry & Reed, 2002) and its relationship with an experimental measure of attention control (the Attention Network Task; Fan et al., 2002) and trait anxiety.
    10 Feb 2010

    Event (Conference)

    TitleAttention Control, Attentional Bias, and Anxiety
    Date10/02/2010 → 10/02/2010
    CityUniversity of Nijmegen
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands

    ID: 17608983