Attentional bias towards negative stimuli in healthy individuals and the effects of trait anxiety
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This study aimed to investigate the time course of attentional bias for negative information in healthy individuals and to assess the associated influence of trait anxiety. Thirty-eight healthy volunteers performed an emotional dot-probe task with pairs of negative and neutral scenes, presented for either 1 or 2 s and followed by a target placed at the previous location of either negative or neutral stimulus. Analyses included eye movements during the presentation of the scenes and response times associated with target localization. In a second step, analyses focused on the influence of trait anxiety. While there was no significant difference at the behavioral level, the eye-tracking data revealed that negative information held longer attention than neutral stimuli once fixated. This initial maintenance bias towards negative pictures then increased with increasing trait anxiety. However, at later processing stages, only individuals with the highest trait anxiety appeared to fixate longer on negative pictures than neutral pictures, individuals with low trait anxiety showing the opposite pattern. This study provides novel evidence that healthy individuals display an attentional maintenance bias towards negative stimuli, which is associated with trait anxiety.
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Hypervigilance is tightly coupled with attentional threat bias, referring to the fact that negative valence content captures human attention more than other content.
“It is tightly coupled with attentional threat bias, referring to the fact that negative valence content captures human attention more than other content [121,122].”
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The Discussion reports that healthy volunteers spent more time looking at negative than neutral pictures, supporting an attentional bias toward negative content. But it found no faster initial orienting toward negative pictures and favored attentional maintenance over vigilance; it therefore does not establish the claimed tight coupling between hypervigilance and attentional threat bias. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredConverging evidence indicates that negative emotional content is prioritized over neutral content even during early stages of visual attention.
“Converging evidence indicates that negative emotional content is prioritized over neutral content even during early stages of visual attention [122-124].”
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- Authors
- Veerapa, E., Grandgenevre, P., El Fayoumi, M., Vinnac, B., Haelewyn, O., Szaffarczyk, S., Vaiva, G., & D’Hondt, F.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Corresponding author
- D’Hondt, Fabien
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2020-07-16
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11826-11826
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7367300
- OpenAlex
- W3043750982
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 6.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Fondation Pierre Deniker pour la Recherche et la Prévention en Santé Mentale
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- attentional bias, negative stimuli, trait anxiety, eye movements, fixation duration, emotional scenes, healthy individuals
- MeSH terms
- Attentional Bias, Adult, Anxiety, Attention, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Reaction Time, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Healthy Volunteers
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