On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases
Reward learning and aversive conditioning have consequences for attentional selection, such that stimuli that come to signal reward and threat bias attention regardless of their valence. Appetitive and aversive stimuli have distinctive influences on response selection, such that they activate an app...
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| description | Reward learning and aversive conditioning have consequences for attentional selection, such that stimuli that come to signal reward and threat bias attention regardless of their valence. Appetitive and aversive stimuli have distinctive influences on response selection, such that they activate an approach and an avoidance response, respectively. However, whether the involuntary influence of reward- and threat-history-laden stimuli extends to the manner in which a response is directed remains unclear. Using a feedback-joystick task and a manikin task, which are common paradigms for examining valence-action bias, we demonstrate that reward- and threat-signalling stimuli do not modulate response selection. Stimuli that came to signal reward and threat via training biased attention and invigorated action in general, but they did not facilitate an approach and avoidance response, respectively. We conclude that attention can be biased towards a stimulus as a function of its prior association with reward or aversive outcomes without necessarily influencing approach vs. avoidance tendencies, such that the mechanisms underlying the involuntary control of attention and behaviour evoked by valent stimuli can be decoupled. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5574fb2ba3e04841b93255e1cd2f89792023-11-16T19:26:59ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252023-01-0113215810.3390/brainsci13020158On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance BiasesHaena Kim0Brian A. Anderson1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USADepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USAReward learning and aversive conditioning have consequences for attentional selection, such that stimuli that come to signal reward and threat bias attention regardless of their valence. Appetitive and aversive stimuli have distinctive influences on response selection, such that they activate an approach and an avoidance response, respectively. However, whether the involuntary influence of reward- and threat-history-laden stimuli extends to the manner in which a response is directed remains unclear. Using a feedback-joystick task and a manikin task, which are common paradigms for examining valence-action bias, we demonstrate that reward- and threat-signalling stimuli do not modulate response selection. Stimuli that came to signal reward and threat via training biased attention and invigorated action in general, but they did not facilitate an approach and avoidance response, respectively. We conclude that attention can be biased towards a stimulus as a function of its prior association with reward or aversive outcomes without necessarily influencing approach vs. avoidance tendencies, such that the mechanisms underlying the involuntary control of attention and behaviour evoked by valent stimuli can be decoupled.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/2/158selection historyselective attentionreward learningaversive conditioningapproachavoidance |
| spellingShingle | Haena Kim Brian A. Anderson On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases Brain Sciences selection history selective attention reward learning aversive conditioning approach avoidance |
| title | On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases |
| title_full | On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases |
| title_fullStr | On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases |
| title_short | On the Relationship between Value- and Threat-Driven Attentional Capture and Approach-Avoidance Biases |
| title_sort | on the relationship between value and threat driven attentional capture and approach avoidance biases |
| topic | selection history selective attention reward learning aversive conditioning approach avoidance |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/2/158 |
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