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Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis
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Persisting negative thoughts are considered a hallmark of depression. Recent information-processing approaches have begun to uncover underlying mechanisms of depressive rumination. Despite marked advances in this area, there is a lack of integration between psychopathology and cognitive (neuro) science research. We propose the 'impaired disengagement' hypothesis as a unifying framework between both approaches. The core tenet of our model is that prolonged processing of self-referent material is due to impaired attentional disengagement from negative self-referent information. We discuss empirical evidence for this framework and outline future ways in which the causal predictions of this model can be tested. The proposed framework can account for effectiveness of various treatments for depression and may aid in devising new interventions to target depressive cognition.
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This theoretical review proposes that depressive rumination persists because attention is not effectively disengaged from negative self-focused material. It integrates cognitive and affective neuroscience evidence to argue that attentional control deficits, especially inhibition and set-shifting problems, contribute to brooding and may be treatment targets.
Key findings
- The model’s central claim is that prolonged processing of self-referent negative information arises from impaired attentional disengagement; normal cued rumination becomes pathological when conflict signaling or attentional control fails.
- Rumination is not unitary: factor analyses of the 22-item Ruminative Response Scale distinguish reflective pondering, a more adaptive problem-solving form, from depressive brooding, a more maladaptive and self-critical form; depression is specifically linked to high brooding.
- Reviewed evidence indicates that higher rumination correlates with poorer attentional control, including more perseverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task in ruminators versus nonruminators, brooding-related inhibition deficits in antisaccade and task-switching paradigms, valence-specific biases for negative words, and difficulty removing negative material from working memory; these associations often remain after controlling for depression scores.
- Neuroscience clues include sustained amygdala responses to negative words related to rumination, reduced connectivity between conflict-monitoring and prefrontal control regions, and altered default-mode-network connectivity, suggesting rumination may become habitual and deplete attentional resources rather than reflect top-down sense-making.
Methods
- Theoretical and integrative review, not an empirical study; it proposes the impaired disengagement framework and reviews existing cognitive, psychopathological, and affective neuroscience literature.
- Draws on questionnaire measures such as the 22-item Ruminative Response Scale and its brooding/reflection factors, experimental tasks including the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, antisaccade, dot probe, negative priming, Sternberg, and task-switching paradigms, and neuroimaging, ERP, and rTMS findings.
- No new sample or primary data are reported; causal claims are framed as hypotheses to be tested prospectively and experimentally.
Limitations
- The paper states that most empirical evidence is correlational, so the causal direction between rumination and information-processing cannot be firmly established; rumination could impair attentional control rather than the reverse.
- The paper states that prospective studies and experimental manipulation of attentional control are needed; many cited studies used undergraduates with elevated depressive symptoms, and some used non-selected samples that may reduce group differences.
- Evident from the text: as a theoretical review, it does not directly test the model’s causal predictions, and some cited findings are mixed, such as no rumination–inhibition association for negative faces in a depressed sample, possibly due to verbal versus pictorial material.
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“Interestingly, a larger switch cost when processing emotional material was associated with increased depressive brooding in response to stress.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Koster, Goubert, Onraedt, & De Raedt, submitted
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“Results revealed that impaired cognitive control measured at time one, reflected in larger switch costs, moderated the association between stress and increased rumination during a stressful period later in time.”
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Koster, Goubert, Onraedt, & De Raedt, submitted
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“We argue that information-processing factors play a crucial role in rumination.”
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“Important to note here, rumination is influenced by factors other than informationprocessing.”
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“The core tenet of our model is that prolonged processing of self-referent material is due to impaired attentional disengagement from negative self-referent information.”
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- The authors state this as an assumption: Internal or external stressors that conflict with a person's goals cue ruminative thoughts.
- Rests on an assumption: In most people, self-critical negative thoughts are not consistent with existing positive self-views.
- Rests on an assumption: In most people, conflict signaling is followed by disengagement of attention from negative thoughts.
- Rests on an assumption: After some time, self-critical thoughts or negative mood cause signaling of cognitive conflict.
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“Such inhibition impairments for negative information have been observed in dysphoric (Joormann, 2004) as well as clinically depressed individuals (Goeleven, De Raedt, Baert, & Koster, 2006).”
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“That is, negative affect, impaired problem solving and task impairments can become important cues that trigger further negative cognitions and rumination.”
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“The successful disengagement of attention from negative thoughts then allows to reappraise the situation or distract from the situation altogether by focusing attention on other (task-relevant) stimuli or more positive distracters.”
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“Indeed, there is emerging evidence that conflict signaling is reduced for negative material when individuals are in a negative mood state (Foti & Hajcak, 2010).”
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- Not checked yetcites Foti & Hajcak, 2010
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“Given that information-processing factors related to attention and executive function determine to a large extent the contents of working memory (Hasher & Zacks, 1988), these factors may play an important role.”
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- Not checked yetcites Hasher & Zacks, 1988
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“This effect is mainly observed when self-relevant negative information is presented for longer durations (see De Raedt & Koster, 2010, for a review).”
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- Not checked yetcites De Raedt & Koster, 2010 source
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“A final but crucial proposal is that if individuals become trapped in this vicious cycle, rumination becomes a habitual mode of thinking.”
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“Attentional control is markedly lower in the presence of selfrelevant negative information.”
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“It is thought that negative mood narrows the attentional focus, which may cause an attentional funneling effect (see Clore & Gasper, 2000).”
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- Not checked yetcites Clore & Gasper, 2000
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“These three factors nicely explain why enhanced self-focused attention is associated with impaired problem solving and executive functioning.”
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“First, depressive episodes are characterized by a general reduction in attentional control.”
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- Not checked yetcites Merriam, Thase, Haas, Keshavan, & Sweeney, 1999 source
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“No effects of rumination were observed on shifting capacity.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.1 Rumination and General Attentional Control
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Derakshan, De Raedt, & Koster, submitted
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“Interestingly, recent neurophysiological data show that conflict monitoring reduces with increasing number of depressive episodes (Vanderhasselt & De Raedt, 2010).”
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- Not checked yetcites Vanderhasselt & De Raedt, 2010
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“At this point there are important reciprocal relations between rumination, attentional control, and depression.”
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“There now is converging evidence to show that clinical as well as sub-clinical depression is characterized by an attentional bias in favor of negative material.”
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- Not checked yetcites De Raedt & Koster, 2010 source
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“The results showed that trait rumination was associated with an attentional bias for negative words, even when depressive symptoms were statistically controlled for (Donaldson et al., 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Donaldson et al., 2007 source
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“An early study by Davis and Nolen-Hoeksema (2000) showed that ruminators versus non-ruminators committed more perserverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.1 Rumination and General Attentional Control
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“There is converging evidence showing that higher levels of rumination are negatively correlated with attentional control.”
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“Brooding was specifically associated with impaired inhibition.”
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- Not checked yetcites Whitmer & Banich, 2007
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“There is an important reciprocal relation between the affective and cognitive consequences of rumination.”
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“In the second option, sustained attention for self-referring negative information is observed due to impaired attentional control.”
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“However, these factors cannot explain why rumination persists despite the absence of highly stressful events or other unmet goals.”
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“Note that avoidance of negative information is quite frequently observed in nondepressed, control participants (see De Raedt & Koster, 2010, for a review).”
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- Not checked yetcites De Raedt & Koster, 2010 source
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“Depressed individuals had more difficulty removing negative words from working memory.”
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- Not checked yetcites Joormann & Gotlib, 2008 source
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“Joormann (2006) found that an increased tendency to depressively ruminate was associated with impaired inhibition of negative words.”
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“The absence of conflict signaling will be associated with a sustained attentional focus on self-referring negative information.”
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“Ruminators persisted in performing the task according to the old rule despite receiving feedback that their matches were incorrect, suggesting a lack of cognitive flexibility.”
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- Not checked yetcites Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000 source
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“As this becomes an habitual form of thinking, we propose that this type of rumination is associated with a large reduction in deliberate allocation of attentional resources.”
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“The study by De Lissnyder et al. ( 2010) confirmed this hypothesis as impaired inhibition of negative information was best predicted by depressive rumination.”
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder et al., 2010 source
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“However, depression is characterized by valence-specific impaired attentional control.”
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“There are multiple ways in which this initial stage of conflict signaling and attentional allocation can be disrupted.”
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“Ruminators compared with nonruminators found it difficult to inhibit orienting towards the abrupt cue as indicated by their longer antisaccade latencies.”
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Derakshan, De Raedt, & Koster, submitted
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“Finally, there is evidence suggesting reduced functional connectivity between neural structures involved in conflict signaling and the implementation of attentional control (Holmes & Pizzagalli, 2008).”
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“Interestingly, these inhibition impairments were specifically related to depressive brooding.”
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Derakshan, De Raedt, & Koster, submitted
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“In this study, ruminators did not differ from nonruminators on other measures of working memory or task switching, such as a backward digit span.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.1 Rumination and General Attentional Control
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- Not checked yetcites Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000 source
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“Interestingly, a regression analysis showed that the difficulty in inhibiting negative words was associated with depressive rumination even when depression scores were controlled for.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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- Not checked yetcites Joormann & Gotlib, 2008 source
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“The neural underpinnings of specific habitual thinking styles such as rumination can also be linked to the broader default-mode-network (DMN), a set of brain regions with consistently decreased neural activity during goal-oriented tasks (Shulman et al., 1997).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Shulman et al., 1997 source
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“Importantly, several studies have shown that therapeutic effects of antidepressant medication are related to changes in cognitive processing of emotional information, with some of these studies showing that changes in cognitive processing of emotional information precede and predict the affective effects of antidepressant medication (see Browning, Holmes, & Harmer, 2010).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Browning et al., 2010 source
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“Previous research in depression has found despite signaling of cognitive control in an error detection paradigm, the adjustment to errors was impaired in depressed individuals because of reduced connectivity between the ACC and the prefrontal cortex (Holmes & Pizzagalli, 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Holmes & Pizzagalli, 2007
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“Following analysis of resting state fMRI data, the ventral subgenual ACC was found to contribute disproportionally to the connectivity of the DMN in this patient group, with increases in connectivity associated with the length of the current depressive episode (Greicius et al., 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Greicius et al., 2007 source
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“It is interesting to note that, in most of the studies discussed below, the association between rumination and attentional control remained significant even when depression scores were controlled for.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“In a study by Siegle and colleagues (Siegle, Steinhauer, Thase, Stenger, & Carter, 2002) depressed individuals showed sustained amygdala responses to negative words that lasted during a following task that involved non-emotional processing.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Siegle et al., 2002 source
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“The difference in sustained amygdala activity to negative versus positive words was related to rumination.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Siegle et al., 2002 source
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“This finding is in line with the idea that information-processing impairments make it difficult for ruminators to disengage from negative content.”
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“In recent years, the DMN has been linked to several forms of psychopathology, including depression.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Greicius et al., 2007 source
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“These findings are not in line with the idea that depressive rumination is driven by top-down processes, related to attempts to make sense of negative events and mood.”
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“Obviously, given the correlational nature of the empirical data we cannot draw any firm conclusions about the causal relationship between rumination and information-processing.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“In a recent study examining the default mode network in depression comparing resting conditions (looking at negative and positive pictures) with an active reappraisal condition has shown that depression is characterized by a failure to regulate activity in neural structures (amygdala, parahippocampus, hippocampus), associated with the DMN (Sheline, Barch, Price, Rundle, Vaishnavi, Snyder, et al. 2”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Sheline et al., 2009 source
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“In the case of normal connectivity, the DLPFC can initiate emotion regulation, inhibiting the amygdala (Davidson et al., 2002) via connections with other frontal regions such as the orbitofrontal (OFC) cortex (Taylor & Fragopaganos, 2005).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Davidson et al., 2002 source
- Not checked yetcites Taylor & Fragopaganos, 2005
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“The ACC in turn sends signals to the DLPFC to increase attentional control and modify the distribution of processing resources (Hopfinger, Buonocore & Mangun, 2000;Macdonald et al., 2000).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Similar findings have been found in relation to repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over the DLPFC, which is a relatively new intervention (Avery, Holtzheimer, Fawaz, Russo, Neumaier, Dunner, et al. 2006;Bortolomasi, Minelli, Fuggetta, Perini, Comencini, Fiaschi, et al. 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“The prospective nature of the design also allows the interpretation that the association between rumination and information-processing is not simply due to rumination depleting cognitive resources.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“Research indicates that the effectiveness of multi-session rTMS in reducing depressive symptoms is preceded by increased attentional control (Vanderhasselt et al., 2009).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Vanderhasselt et al., 2009
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“Interestingly, there is also emerging research suggesting that several biological interventions that are commonly used to treat depression may operate in part through influences on attentional control.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“The DMN has in several studies been linked to psychological functions of introspective and selfreferential thought (Gusnard, Akbudak, Shulman, & Raichle, 2001;Mason, Norton, Van Horn, Wegner, Grafton, & Macrae, 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“with increases in connectivity associated with the length of the current depressive episode (Greicius et al., 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Greicius et al., 2007 source
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“There was also increased functional connectivity in the thalamus during rest.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Greicius et al., 2007 source
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“Instead, our results are in line with the idea that impaired cognitive control contributes to rumination.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“Computerized programs to improve attentional control are relatively easy to disseminate and may have protective effects in at-risk individuals (see Baert, De Raedt, & Koster, 2001;Siegle et al., 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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- Not checked yetcites Baert et al., 2001
- Not checked yetcites Siegle et al., 2007 source
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“In sum, we have argued that attentional control plays an important role in explaining depressive rumination.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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“Thus, there is increasing evidence suggesting that existing treatments for depression and depressive cognition may operate through influences on attentional control.”
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“That is, individuals who are characterized by a difficulty to exercise attentional control in response to negative thoughts are likely to experience persistent rumination.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- The authors state this as an assumption: Internal or external stressors that conflict with a person's goals cue ruminative thoughts.
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“Clearly, heightened levels of negative affect and/or the frequent encounter of stressful events are associated with enhanced attempts to understand these feelings and events (see also Martin & Tesser, 1996).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- Not checked yetcites Martin & Tesser, 1996
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“We postulate difficulty to disengage attention as the central engine that puts individuals at risk for heightened levels of rumination and brooding in particular.”
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“That is, the narrowing of attention is associated with heightened importance of the emotional information that is within the focus of attention, which in turns intensifies the emotional state causing a further reduction of goal space.”
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“Thus, it could be that the impaired inhibition of negative information enhances the amount of negative information that enters working memory.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“In line with emerging literature on emotion regulation, this signaling of conflict can occur at the automatic as well as at the strategic level (see Mauss, Bunge, & Gross, 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > INSERT FIGURE 1 ABOUT HERE 2.2 Impaired Disengagement Hypothesis
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- Not checked yetcites Mauss, Bunge, & Gross, 2007 source
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“Where initially rumination may be goaldirected and engage attentional resources, persistent rumination is characterized by reduced quality of thinking with attention being deployed to negative thoughts in a less constructive way (Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > INSERT FIGURE 1 ABOUT HERE 2.2 Impaired Disengagement Hypothesis
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- Not checked yetcites Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008 source
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“This persistent rumination is related to depressive rumination or brooding.”
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“This may be due to either impaired conflict signaling or intact conflict signaling but reduced attentional control.”
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“It is noteworthy though that this reduced attentional control is not of very large magnitude and mostly found in severely depressed individuals (see for a review, Joormann et al., 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Joormann et al., 2007
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“Engaging in rumination, be it pondering or brooding, in response to major life events, negative mood states, or relatively minor stressors (such as an awkward social encounter) is considered a normal, non-pathological process.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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- Not checked yetcites Carver & Scheier, 1998
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“Importantly, previous research has shown that such persistent rumination is associated with impaired problem solving (Watkins & Moulds, 2005), reduced performance on other tasks (e.g., Lyubomirsky, Kasri, & Zehm, 2003), and with negative affect (Thomsen, Jorgensen, Mehlsen, & Zachariae, 2004).”
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- Not checked yetcites Watkins & Moulds, 2005
- Not checked yetcites Lyubomirsky, Kasri, & Zehm, 2003
- Not checked yetcites Thomsen, Jorgensen, Mehlsen, & Zachariae, 2004
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“In the first option (i.e., impaired conflict signaling), in individuals with negative self schemas (cf.Clark et al., 1999), negative thoughts about oneself will elicit less cognitive conflict and therefore attentional resources will not be reallocated.”
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- Not checked yetcites Clark et al., 1999
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- Rests on an assumption: In most people, self-critical negative thoughts are not consistent with existing positive self-views.
- Rests on an assumption: After some time, self-critical thoughts or negative mood cause signaling of cognitive conflict.
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“Indeed, there is evidence that sad compared with positive mood is associated with a more focused attention and less creative thinking (Rowe, Hirsh, & Anderson, 2007).”
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“it was shown that brooding was related to valence-specific inhibitory problems as well as set-shifting impairments”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.1 Rumination and General Attentional Control
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- Not checked yetcites De Lissnyder, Koster, Derakhshan, & De Raedt, 2010
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“This process of critical contextual and selfevaluation helps us make sense of events in our social environment or personal history (see Carver & Scheier, 1998).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.1 Basic Assumptions of the Model
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“Recently, important advances have been made in the area of cognitive methodology that allows to improve either attentional control functioning (see Siegle, Ghinassi, & Thase, 2007) or valence-specific processing biases (see MacLeod, Koster, & Fox, 2009).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“The ACC can be seen as a bridge between subcortical emotion processing and cognitive control, integrating signals from the ventral ACC and the dorsal ACC (Bush, Luu & Posner, 2000)”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“First, emotional stimuli activate the amygdala (Zald, 2003), which in turn signals to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Moreover, there are also clues from affective neuroscience pointing towards a strong association between rumination and attentional control impairments, and that depressive rumination is not linked to top-down attempts to understand negative life events and mood but to the depletion of attentional resources.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“Taken together, the evidence discussed above (see also Burwell & Shirk, 2007;Joormann, 2006) indicates that rumination and brooding in particular are associated with impairments and valence-specific biases in attentional control functions.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 2.3.2 Rumination and Valence-specific Attentional Bias
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“The ruminative, self-referential focus of depressed patients has led to predictions of differences between this clinical group and controls in terms of DMN connectivity (Greicius, Flores, Menon, Glover, Solvason, Kenna, et al., 2007).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“There is a wealth of research showing an enhanced amygdala activity upon the encounter of stress in depression, with the amygdala being primarily implicated in processing of negative emotions.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Depression is associated with hypoactivation in cortical structures involved in attentional control which can be related to impaired emotion regulation.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“This increased amygdala activity has been linked to impaired cognitive control exerted by specific regions of the prefrontal cortex (Davidson, Pizzagalli, Nitschke, Putnam, 2002;Holmes & Pizzagalli, 2008) onto limbic emotion processing”
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“as reflected by lower regulatory activity in the frontal cortices as well as a reduced connectivity between the amygdala and these frontal cortex regions during emotion processing in depression.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Instead these data provide some indication for the inability to or absence of effortful control over depressive cognition as rumination depletes attentional resources.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Due to these reasons there may remain an inward focused attention, with persistent rumination.”
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“The brain structures involved in the default mode network (DMN) include precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and medial, lateral and inferior parietal cortex (Raichle, 2001).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“This could mean that such cognitive control deficits may be causally related to the persistence of depressive cognition.”
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“the latter being involved in conflict monitoring and the facilitation of task-appropriate response selection (Macdonald, Cohen, Stenger & Carter, 2000).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“with some of these studies showing that changes in cognitive processing of emotional information precede and predict the affective effects of antidepressant medication (see Browning, Holmes, & Harmer, 2010).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Taken together, the finding that self-reflective thoughts are associated with the DMN which is anti-correlated with areas involved in attentional control suggests that ruminative thought may be a habitual mode of thinking in depressed individuals, going over negative events past repeatedly, without marked difficulties to control this type of thinking, or to engage in the active reappraisal of”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“can readily change a habitual thinking style if attentional control is not improved first, and this could be the reason for the important problem of relapse.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“Although deactivated during task performance, this network is active in the resting brain with a high degree of functional connectivity between regions.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“With regard to psychological treatments, traditional cognitive therapy for depression which is considered one of the most efficacious treatments for depression(Hollon & Dimidjian, 2009) would use verbal interventions that target negative thinking through challenging some of the core beliefs that are reported by the depressed individual.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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- Not checked yetcites Hollon & Dimidjian, 2009
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“As an increasing number of depressive episodes is associated with lower stress reactivity (Monroe & Hakness, 2005) and increasing risk of developing new depressive episodes (Keller, 2003), it could be useful to target attentional control as a proximal risk factors for the development of first or recurrent depressive episodes.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
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“For instance, sleep disturbances are a well-established risk factor for depression, that are not only present during depressive episodes but also precede these episodes (Fichter, Kohlboeck, Quadflieg, Wyschkon, & Esser, 2009).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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“At a broader level there is emerging cognitive as well as biological research pointing to the relevance of attentional factors in depression (De Raedt & Koster, 2010).”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 5. Future Challenges
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Internal or external stressors that conflict with a person's goals cue ruminative thoughts.
“We assume that certain internal (e.g., negative affect or memories) or external stressors that conflict with an individuals”
The paper relies on this without support.
In most people, self-critical negative thoughts are not consistent with existing positive self-views.
“In most individuals self-critical negative thoughts typically are not in line with existing positive self views.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In most people, conflict signaling is followed by disengagement of attention from negative thoughts.
“In most individuals this conflict signaling is followed by the disengagement of attention from negative thoughts.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Critical thinking ends when a solution is found or, without a solution, when the person uses automatic or deliberate emotion regulation.
“This critical thinking is terminated when a solution to the problem is reached or, in the absence of a solution, when the individual engages in either automatic or deliberate emotion regulation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
After some time, self-critical thoughts or negative mood cause signaling of cognitive conflict.
“Therefore after some time these thoughts (or the affiliated negative mood) will cause the signaling of cognitive conflict.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Rumination is a verbal process with a stronger link to verbal than pictorial material.
“this may be explained by the fact that rumination is a verbal processes with a stronger linkage to verbal compared with pictorial material.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Substantial correlational evidence supports an association between attentional control and rumination.
“Despite the wealth of correlational data indicating the link between attentional control and rumination, an important area of investigation will be to test the directional hypothesis that attentional factors contribute to the persistence of rumination.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Interpersonal therapy, like other well-studied psychotherapies, mainly employs verbal methods to improve depressive cognition.
“Other well-investigated forms of psychotherapy, such as interpersonal therapy also mainly use verbal techniques to improve depressive cognition.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Rumination drains attentional resources.
“Instead these data provide some indication for the inability to or absence of effortful control over depressive cognition as rumination depletes attentional resources.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Computerized attentional-control training programs can be distributed with relative ease.
“Computerized programs to improve attentional control are relatively easy to disseminate and may have protective effects in at-risk individuals (see Baert, De Raedt, & Koster, 2001;Siegle et al., 2007).”
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“Attentional difficulties, or deficits in the capacity to regulate attention and inhibit task-irrelevant information (Eysenck et al., 2007), are considered vulnerability factors for maintaining maladaptive cognitive processes (e.g., rumination, threat-related attentional biases) involved in internalizing psychopathologies, thereby increasing symptom severity and functional impairment (Derryberry &”
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“Although prior research had shown that attentional difficulties are associated with increased threat-related attentional biases, fears, and internalizing symptoms (Hsu et al., 2015; Koster et al., 2011; Van Bockstaele et al., 2014)”
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§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
“without marked difficulties to control this type of thinking, or to engage in the active reappraisal of events past.”
§ Running head: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: The impaired disengagement hypothesis > 3. Rumination and Attentional Control: Clues from Affective Neuroscience
“Instead these data provide some indication for the inability to or absence of effortful control over depressive cognition as rumination depletes attentional resources.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Koster, E. H. W., De Lissnyder, E., Derakshan, N., & De Raedt, R.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Koster, Ernst H.W.
- ORCID
- Koster, Ernst H.W.
- Venue
- Clinical Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-02
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 138-145
- ISSN
- 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2004506384
- Semantic Scholar
- 7ce6513d4b864a431a865140a494be9a6c95cef2
- Cited by
- 916
- References
- 106
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- biblio.ugent.be
- Licence
- Locations
- Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (BOF10/GOA/014)
- Universiteit Gent (BOF10/GOA/014)
- Vlaamse regering
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- depressive rumination, attentional disengagement, depression, cognitive models of depression, depression treatment, cognitive intervention
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Cognition, Depression, Emotions, Humans
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-07, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-07 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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