What drives the attentional bias for fearful faces? An eye‐tracking investigation of 7‐month‐old infants’ visual scanning patterns

Infancy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 658-676
Author(s):  
Shira C. Segal ◽  
Margaret C. Moulson
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Visual Scanning ◽  
Fearful Faces

Attentional Bias to Untrustworthy Faces: Evidence From Eye Tracking Data

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1508
Author(s):  
Qiandong WANG ◽  
Qinggong LI ◽  
Kaikai CHEN ◽  
Genyue FU
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Tracking Data

Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Mullin ◽  
Jacob B. W. Holzman ◽  
Laura Pyle ◽  
Emmaly L. Perks ◽  
Yaswanth Chintaluru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Anxious Youth ◽  
Case Control Analysis

Abstract Background Attentional bias to threat has been implicated as a cognitive mechanism in anxiety disorders for youth. Yet, prior studies documenting this bias have largely relied on a method with questionable reliability (i.e. dot-probe task) and small samples, few of which included adolescents. The current study sought to address such limitations by examining relations between anxiety – both clinically diagnosed and dimensionally rated – and attentional bias to threat. Methods The study included a community sample of adolescents and employed eye-tracking methodology intended to capture possible biases across the full range of both automatic (i.e. vigilance bias) and controlled attentional processes (i.e. avoidance bias, maintenance bias). We examined both dimensional anxiety (across the full sample; n = 215) and categorical anxiety in a subset case-control analysis (n = 100) as predictors of biases. Results Findings indicated that participants with an anxiety disorder oriented more slowly to angry faces than matched controls. Results did not suggest a greater likelihood of initial orienting to angry faces among our participants with anxiety disorders or those with higher dimensional ratings of anxiety. Greater anxiety severity was associated with greater dwell time to neutral faces. Conclusions This is the largest study to date examining eye-tracking metrics of attention to threat among healthy and anxious youth. Findings did not support the notion that anxiety is characterized by heightened vigilance or avoidance/maintenance of attention to threat. All effects detected were extremely small. Links between attention to threat and anxiety among adolescents may be subtle and highly dependent on experimental task dimensions.

scholarly journals Obsessive–compulsive symptoms and attentional bias: An eye-tracking methodology

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 303-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria C. Bradley ◽  
Donncha Hanna ◽  
Paul Wilson ◽  
Gareth Scott ◽  
Paul Quinn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms

scholarly journals Investigating emotion recognition in the first year of life using eye-tracking Methodology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira C. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
Key Words Emotion

The ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion is a critical part of human social interaction. Infants improve in this ability across the first year of life, but the mechanisms driving these changes and the origins of individual differences in this ability are largely unknown. This thesis used eye tracking to characterize infant scanning patterns of expressions. In study 1 (n = 40), I replicated the preference for fearful faces, and found that infants either allocated more attention to the eyes or the mouth across both happy and fearful expressions. In study 2 (n = 40), I found that infants differentially scanned the critical facial features of dynamic expressions. In study 3 (n = 38), I found that maternal depressive symptoms and positive and negative affect were related to individual differences in infants’ scanning of emotional expressions. Implications for our understanding of the development of emotion recognition are discussed. Key Words: emotion recognition, infancy eye tracking, socioemotional development

scholarly journals Faced with one’s fear: Attentional bias in anorexia nervosa and healthy individuals upon confrontation with an obese body stimulus in an eye‐tracking paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
AndreaSabrina Hartmann ◽  
Tiana Borgers ◽  
Jennifer Joanne Thomas ◽  
Claire‐Marie Giabbiconi ◽  
Silja Vocks
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Healthy Individuals

Attentional bias modification facilitates attentional control mechanisms: Evidence from eye tracking

2015 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel T.M. Chen ◽  
Patrick J.F. Clarke ◽  
Tamara L. Watson ◽  
Colin MacLeod ◽  
Adam J. Guastella
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Attentional Bias Modification ◽  
Bias Modification

scholarly journals The influence of gender and body dissatisfaction on body‐related attentional bias: An eye‐tracking and virtual reality study

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1181-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Porras‐Garcia ◽  
Marta Ferrer‐Garcia ◽  
Alexandra Ghita ◽  
Manuel Moreno ◽  
Laura López‐Jiménez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Attentional Bias
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