Gladwin, T. E. and Figner, B. (2019) Trial-to-trial Carryover Effects on Spatial Attentional Bias. Acta Psychologica, 196. pp. 51-55. ISSN 0001-6918
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Abstract
Visual Probe Tasks (VPTs) have been extensively used to measure spatial attentional biases, but as usually analysed, VPTs do not consider trial-to-trial carryover effects of probe location: Does responding to a probe on, e.g., the location of a threat cue affect the bias on the subsequent trial? The aim of the current study was to confirm whether this kind of carryover exists, using a novel task version, the diagonalized VPT, designed to focus on such trial-to-trial interactions. Two versions of the task were performed by a sample of college students. In one version cues were coloured squares; in the other, cues were threat-related and neutral images. Both versions included partially random positive or negative response feedback and varying Cue-Probe Intervals (200 or 600 ms). Carryover effects were found in both versions. Responding to a probe at the location of a cue of a given colour induced an attentional bias on the subsequent trial in the direction of that colour. Responding to a threat-related cue induced an attentional bias towards threat on the subsequent trial. The results provide evidence that trial-to-trial carryover effects on spatial attentional bias indeed exist. A methodological implication is that previous probe location could be considered in analyses or re-analyses of spatial visual attention tasks.
Publication Type: | Articles |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Carryover, Visual, probe, Colour, Threat, Attentional bias, Spatial attention |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Research Entities > POWER Centre Academic Areas > Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences > Psychology |
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Depositing User: | Thomas Gladwin |
Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2019 13:57 |
Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2021 13:49 |
URI: | https://eprints.chi.ac.uk/id/eprint/4570 |