Trial-to-trial Carryover Effects on Spatial Attentional Bias

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
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

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