scholarly journals The time course of attentional bias for emotional faces in anxious children

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1173-1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison M. Waters ◽  
Liza L. Kokkoris ◽  
Karin Mogg ◽  
Brendan P. Bradley ◽  
Daniel S. Pine
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Emotional Faces

scholarly journals Processing of emotional faces in social phobia

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Risløv Staugaard ◽  
Nicole Kristjansen Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Social Phobia ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Early Time ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Time Course Of Attention

Previous research has found that individuals with social phobia differ from controls in their processing of emotional faces. For instance, people with social phobia show increased attention to briefly presented threatening faces. However, when exposure times are increased, the direction of this attentional bias is more unclear. Studies investigating eye movements have found both increased as well as decreased attention to threatening faces in socially anxious participants. The current study investigated eye movements to emotional faces in eight patients with social phobia and 34 controls. Three different tasks with different exposure durations were used, which allowed for an investigation of the time course of attention. At the early time interval, patients showed a complex pattern of both vigilance and avoidance of threatening faces. At the longest time interval, patients avoided the eyes of sad, disgust, and neutral faces more than controls, whereas there were no group differences for angry faces.

scholarly journals Rapid neural representations of personally relevant faces

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Bayer ◽  
Oksana Berhe ◽  
Isabel Dziobek ◽  
Tom Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Personal Relevance ◽  
Neural Responses ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Neural Representations ◽  
Processing Network

AbstractThe faces of those most personally relevant to us are our primary source of social information, making their timely perception a priority. Recent research indicates that gender, age and identity of faces can be decoded from EEG/MEG data within 100ms. Yet the time course and neural circuitry involved in representing the personal relevance of faces remain unknown. We applied simultaneous EEG-fMRI to examine neural responses to emotional faces of female participants’ romantic partners, friends, and a stranger. Combining EEG and fMRI in cross-modal representational similarity analyses, we provide evidence that representations of personal relevance start prior to structural encoding at 100ms in visual cortex, but also in prefrontal and midline regions involved in value representation, and monitoring and recall of self-relevant information. Representations related to romantic love emerged after 300ms. Our results add to an emerging body of research that suggests that models of face perception need to be updated to account for rapid detection of personal relevance in cortical circuitry beyond the core face processing network.

scholarly journals The time course of attentional bias to cues of threat and safety

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisette J. Schmidt ◽  
Artem V. Belopolsky ◽  
Jan Theeuwes
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Time Course

Specificity and Time-Course of Attentional Bias in Chronic Headache

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 583-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Schoth ◽  
Christina Liossi
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Chronic Headache ◽  
Time Course

Time-Course of Attentional Bias for Positive Social Words in Individuals with High and Low Social Anxiety

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyu Yu ◽  
Songwei Li ◽  
Mingyi Qian ◽  
Peng Yang ◽  
Xiaoling Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Response Latencies ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
High Social Anxiety ◽  
Different Response ◽  
Positive Stimuli ◽  
Social Words

Background: Although accumulating research demonstrates the association between attentional bias and social anxiety, the bias for positive stimuli has so far not been adequately studied. Aims: The aim is to investigate the time-course of attentional bias for positive social words in participants with high and low social anxiety. Method: In a modified dot-probe task, word-pairs of neutral and positive social words were randomly presented for 100, 500, and 1250 milliseconds in a nonclinical sample of students to test their attentional bias. Results: Non-significant interaction of Group × Exposure Duration was found. However, there was a significant main effect of group, with significantly different response latencies between the high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) groups in the 100 ms condition, without for 500 or 1250 ms. With respect to attentional bias, the LSA group showed enhanced preferential attention for positive social words to which the HSA group showed avoidance in the 100 ms condition. In the 500 ms condition, preferential attention to positive social words was at trend in the LSA group, relative to the HSA group. Neither group showed attentional bias in the 1250 ms condition. Conclusions: These findings extend recent research about the attention training program and add to the empirical literature suggesting that the initial avoidance of positive stimuli may contribute to maintaining social anxiety.

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