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Attentional biases in PTSD: More evidence for interference

Pineles, Suzanne L., Shipherd, Jillian C., Mostoufi, Sheeva M., Abramovitz, Sarah M., Yovel, Iftah·2009·Behaviour Research and Therapy
DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2009.08.001
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Attentional biases to trauma-related stimuli have been widely demonstrated in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the majority of these studies used methods not suited to differentiating difficulty disengaging attention from threatening stimuli (interference) from facilitated detection of threat. In the current study, a visual search task (VST) with a lexical decision component was used to differentiate between attentional interference and facilitation. Forty-six sexual assault survivors with High PTSD or Low PTSD symptoms completed the VST with three types of stimuli (trauma-related, general threat-related, and semantically-related neutral words), to examine the specificity of attentional biases associated with PTSD symptoms. High PTSD participants showed increased interference to trauma-related words relative to Low PTSD participants. Furthermore, the increased attentional interference in High PTSD participants was specific to trauma-related stimuli. No evidence was found for facilitated detection of threatening stimuli in PTSD. These results provide additional support for attentional biases in PTSD relating to attentional interference with trauma-related cues rather than facilitated detection of threat. The implications for this pattern of results are discussed in relation to anxiety disorders that are characterized by rumination and/or intrusions (e.g., PTSD, GAD) rather than those more circumscribed to fight or flight response (e.g., phobias).

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  1. Yovel, 2003, Anxiety-related attentional biases in the spatial and temporal dimensions, Dissertation Abstracts Internationa: Section B – the Sciences and Engineering, 64, 1920

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Authors
Pineles, S. L., Shipherd, J. C., Mostoufi, S. M., Abramovitz, S. M., & Yovel, I.
Affiliations
  • Boston University (US)
  • VA Boston Healthcare System (US)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Corresponding author
Pineles, Suzanne L.
ORCID
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-12
Volume
47
Issue
12
Pages
1050-1057
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.brat.2009.08.001
OpenAlex
W1989977478
Cited by
179
References
36
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder, attentional bias, attentional interference, threat detection, sexual assault survivors, visual search task, lexical decision, rumination, generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety disorders
MeSH terms
Attention, Attitude, Decision Making, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Sex Offenses, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Visual Perception

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