Attentional Bias

What we focus on (and what we ignore) can be biased by external events and stimuli as well as internal states.

#perception

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Nummenmaa, L., Hietanen, J. K., Calvo, M. G., & Hyönä, J. (2011). Food catches the eye but not for everyone: A BMI–contingent attentional bias in rapid detection of nutriments. PLoS ONE, 6(5), e19215. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019215

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Disner, S. G., Shumake, J. D., & Beevers, C. G. (2016). Self-referential schemas and attentional bias predict severity and naturalistic course of depression symptoms. Cognition and Emotion, 31(4), 632-644. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1146123

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McHugh, R. K., Murray, H. W., Hearon, B. A., Calkins, A. W., & Otto, M. W. (2010). Attentional bias and craving in smokers: The impact of a single attentional training session. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 12(12), 1261-1264. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntq171

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Pavlov, S. V., Korenyok, V. V., Reva, N. V., Tumyalis, A. V., Loktev, K. V., & Aftanas, L. I. (2014). Effects of long-term meditation practice on attentional biases towards emotional faces: An eye-tracking study. Cognition and Emotion, 29(5), 807-815. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2014.945903

Wu, R., Liu, L., Zhu, H., Su, W., Cao, Z., Zhong, S., Liu, X., & Jiang, C. (2019). Brief mindfulness meditation improves emotion processing. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01074

Begh, R., Munafò, M. R., Shiffman, S., Ferguson, S. G., Nichols, L., Mohammed, M. A., Holder, R. L., Sutton, S., & Aveyard, P. (2013). Attentional bias retraining in cigarette smokers attempting smoking cessation (ARTS): Study protocol for a double blind randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1176

Carraro, L., Castelli, L., & Macchiella, C. (2011). The automatic conservative: Ideology-based attentional asymmetries in the processing of Valenced information. PLoS ONE, 6(11), e26456. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026456

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