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The role of attentional biases in PTSD: is it interference or facilitation?

Pineles, Suzanne L., Shipherd, Jillian C., Welch, Lisa P., Yovel, Iftah·2007·Behaviour Research and Therapy

Abstract

Although attentional biases have been demonstrated in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the cognitive methodologies used have not allowed for disambiguation of two types of attentional biases. It remains unclear if PTSD involves difficulty disengaging attention from threatening stimuli (interference) or facilitated detection. To differentiate between attentional interference and facilitation, 57 male Vietnam-era veterans (30 High PTSD and 27 Low PTSD) completed a visual search task with a lexical decision component. High PTSD veterans who engaged in the interference task first showed increased interference to threat-relevant words relative to Low PTSD veterans. However, no evidence was found for facilitated detection of threatening stimuli in PTSD.

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  • A well-replicated finding in the PTSD literature is disrupted cognitive control in individuals with PTSD, evidenced by greater distractibility from task-irrelevant stimuli and difficulty inhibiting responses to task-irrelevant stimuli.

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Authors
Pineles, S. L., Shipherd, J. C., Welch, L. P., & Yovel, I.
Affiliations
  • Boston University (US)
  • VA Boston Healthcare System (US)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Corresponding author
Pineles, Suzanne L.
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-08
Volume
45
Issue
8
Pages
1903-1913
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1978546094
Cited by
125
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 10
FWCI
3.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder, attentional bias, attentional interference, attentional facilitation, threat detection, visual search, lexical decision, Vietnam War veterans
MeSH terms
Anxiety, Attention, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Reaction Time, Semantics, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Veterans, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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