Infants' neutral facial expressions elicit the strongest initial attentional bias in adults: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Cheng Jia ◽  
Fang Yuan Ding ◽  
Gang Cheng ◽  
Yong Liu ◽  
Wei Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Electrophysiological Evidence

scholarly journals Genetic Variations in COMT and DRD2 Modulate Attentional Bias for Affective Facial Expressions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. e81446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingyuan Gong ◽  
Guomin Shen ◽  
She Li ◽  
Guoping Zhang ◽  
Hongchao Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Genetic Variations

scholarly journals Emotional Infant Face Processing in Women With Major Depression and Expecting Parents With Depressive Symptoms

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Bohne ◽  
Dag Nordahl ◽  
Åsne A. W. Lindahl ◽  
Pål Ulvenes ◽  
Catharina E. A. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Facial Memory ◽  
Infant Faces

Processing of emotional facial expressions is of great importance in interpersonal relationships. Aberrant engagement with facial expressions, particularly an engagement with sad faces, loss of engagement with happy faces, and enhanced memory of sadness has been found in depression. Since most studies used adult faces, we here examined if such biases also occur in processing of infant faces in those with depression or depressive symptoms. In study 1, we recruited 25 inpatient women with major depression and 25 matched controls. In study 2, we extracted a sample of expecting parents from the NorBaby study, where 29 reported elevated levels of depressive symptoms, and 29 were matched controls. In both studies, we assessed attentional bias with a dot-probe task using happy, sad and neutral infant faces, and facial memory bias with a recognition task using happy, sad, angry, afraid, surprised, disgusted and neutral infant and adult faces. Participants also completed the Ruminative Responses Scale and Becks Depression Inventory-II. In study 1, we found no group difference in either attention to or memory accuracy for emotional infant faces. Neither attention nor recognition was associated with rumination. In study 2, we found that the group with depressive symptoms disengaged more slowly than healthy controls from sad infant faces, and this was related to rumination. The results place emphasis on the importance of emotional self-relevant material when examining cognitive processing in depression. Together, these studies demonstrate that a mood-congruent attentional bias to infant faces is present in expecting parents with depressive symptoms, but not in inpatients with Major Depression Disorder who do not have younger children.

scholarly journals Time course of attentional bias to painful facial expressions and the moderating role of attentional control: an eye-tracking study

2019 ◽  
pp. 204946371986687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Mazidi ◽  
Mohsen Dehghani ◽  
Louise Sharpe ◽  
Behrooz Dolatshahi ◽  
Seyran Ranjbar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pain Patients

Introduction: This study investigated the time course of attention to pain and examined the moderating effect of attentional control in the relationship between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias in chronic pain patients. Methods: A total of 28 patients with chronic pain and 29 pain-free individuals observed pictures of pain, happy and neutral facial expressions while their gaze behaviour was recorded. Pain intensity and duration, anxiety, depression, stress, attentional control and pain catastrophizing were assessed by questionnaires. Results: In all subjects, the pattern of attention for pain faces was characterized by initial vigilance, followed by avoidance. No significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of orientation towards the stimuli, the duration of first fixation, the average duration of fixation or number of fixations on the pain stimuli. Attentional control moderated the relationship between catastrophizing and overall dwell time for happy faces in pain patients, indicating that those with high attentional control and high catastrophizing focused more on happy faces, whereas the reverse was true for those with low attentional control. Conclusion: This study supported the vigilance–avoidance pattern of attention to painful facial expressions and a moderation effect of attentional control in the association between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias to happy faces among pain patients.

Electrophysiological evidence for attentional capture by irrelevant angry facial expressions

2016 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Burra ◽  
Caroline Barras ◽  
Sélim Yahia Coll ◽  
Dirk Kerzel
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Electrophysiological Evidence

Electrophysiological evidence for an attentional bias in processing body stimuli in bulimia nervosa

2015 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Mai ◽  
Klaus Gramann ◽  
Beate M. Herbert ◽  
Hans-Christoph Friederich ◽  
Petra Warschburger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Electrophysiological Evidence ◽  
Processing Body
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