Supplemental Material for On the Relative Sensitivity of Spatial and Nonspatial Measures of Attentional Bias: Emotion-Induced Blindness, the Dot Probe, and Gradations in Ratings of Negative Pictures

Emotion ◽  
2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Dot Probe

On the relative sensitivity of spatial and non-spatial measures of attentional bias: Emotion-induced blindness, the dot probe, and gradations in ratings of negative pictures

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandersan Onie ◽  
Steven Most
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Attentional Biases ◽  
Dot Probe ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Emotional Pictures ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Attentional biases towards negative information are implicated in various emotional disorders. The literature probing this relationship relies on assumptions that the tasks used to measure attentional biases are sensitive to the negative emotional qualities of stimuli, but are such assumptions justified? We assessed the degree to which two widely used tasks – the dot probe and emotion-induced blindness – displayed sensitivity to gradations in valence and arousal ratings for negative emotional pictures. For emotion-induced blindness (the failure to see a target the follows an emotional distractor in a rapidly presented sequence of items), there was strong evidence of sensitivity to gradations in both valence and arousal. For the dot probe (a spatial attention task where latency to respond to a target depends on whether it appears at or away from the location of an emotional stimulus), there was moderate evidence of sensitivity to emotional vs. neutral stimuli, but there was also moderate to strong evidence that the task was insensitive to gradations in valence and arousal. That said, in the dot probe, response latency regardless of spatial relationship between the target and the emotional image appeared sensitive to gradations in stimulus emotionality; suggesting that such sensitivity may be characteristic of non-spatial, rather than spatial, aspects of attention. Implications for attentional bias studies are discussed. Notably, the finding that emotion-induced blindness was sensitive to gradations in ratings of emotional pictures supports claims that the effect arises due to stimulus emotionality rather than simply differences in visual features of pictures (e.g., color, brightness, complexity).

Beyond attentional bias: A perceptual bias in a dot-probe task.

Emotion ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1362-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno R. Bocanegra ◽  
Jorg Huijding ◽  
René Zeelenberg
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Perceptual Bias ◽  
Dot Probe ◽  
Probe Task

Attentional bias in MDD: ERP components analysis and classification using a dot-probe task

2018 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 169-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Li ◽  
Jianxiu Li ◽  
Bin Hu ◽  
Jing Zhu ◽  
Xuemin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Dot Probe ◽  
Probe Task ◽  
Components Analysis

Attentional Bias to Direct Gaze in a Dot-Probe Paradigm

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 1007-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Miyazaki ◽  
Hiromi Wake ◽  
Shigeru Ichihara ◽  
Tenji Wake
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Dot Probe ◽  
Direct Gaze

The Psychometric Properties of the Dot-Probe Paradigm When Used in Pain-Related Attentional Bias Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1247-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake F. Dear ◽  
Louise Sharpe ◽  
Michael K. Nicholas ◽  
Kathryn Refshauge
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Dot Probe
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