Pike, Alexandra C orcid.org/0000-0003-1972-5530, Printzlau, Frida A B, von Lautz, Alexander H et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Attentional Control in Subclinical Anxiety and Depression:Depression Symptoms Are Associated With Deficits in Target Facilitation, Not Distractor Inhibition. Frontiers in Psychology. 1660. p. 1660. ISSN 1664-1078
Abstract
Mood and anxiety disorders are associated with deficits in attentional control involving emotive and non-emotive stimuli. Current theories focus on impaired attentional inhibition of distracting stimuli in producing these deficits. However, standard attention tasks struggle to separate distractor inhibition from target facilitation. Here, we investigate whether distractor inhibition underlies these deficits using neutral stimuli in a behavioral task specifically designed to tease apart these two attentional processes. Healthy participants performed a four-location Posner cueing paradigm and completed self-report questionnaires measuring depressive symptoms and trait anxiety. Using regression analyses, we found no relationship between distractor inhibition and mood symptoms or trait anxiety. However, we find a relationship between target facilitation and depression. Specifically, higher depressive symptoms were associated with reduced target facilitation in a task-version in which the target location repeated over a block of trials. We suggest this may relate to findings previously linking depression with deficits in predictive coding in clinical populations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Pike, Printzlau, von Lautz, Harmer, Stokes and Noonan. Funding Information: The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health. We would like to thank Philip Noonan for technical assistance. Funding. This work was supported by the Medical Research Council Career Development Award (MR/J009024/1) to MS. The research was also supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre Programme. The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z). |
Keywords: | anxiety,attention,attentional bias,depression,target facilitation |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2022 14:10 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 18:03 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01660 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01660 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188747 |