Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study
People are evolutionarily predisposed to associate threat relevant stimuli with fear or aversiveness and show an attentional bias toward threat. Attentional bias modification (ABM) has been shown to reduce threat biases, while quantitative reviews assessing the effectiveness of bias modification yie...
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| author | Hejun Liu Qihan Zhang Jon D. Elhai Jon D. Elhai Christian Montag Haibo Yang |
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| description | People are evolutionarily predisposed to associate threat relevant stimuli with fear or aversiveness and show an attentional bias toward threat. Attentional bias modification (ABM) has been shown to reduce threat biases, while quantitative reviews assessing the effectiveness of bias modification yielded inconsistent results. The current study examined the relationship between the training effect of attentional bias to threat and the type of threatening stimuli. Twenty-two participants performed a modified dot-probe task while undergoing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) imaging. Results indicated that there was a strong pattern of attentional avoidance among individuals in an animal but not human threat condition. Furthermore, findings from fNIRS confirmed that the influence from type of threatening stimulus would be modulated by cortical activation patterns, especially in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortices (vlPFC) and angular gyrus. Overall, these results suggest that stimulus-specific may play a major role in personalization of specific psychological interventions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa8c8238fed4415dbed01694eb644d182024-01-11T04:35:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612024-01-011710.3389/fnhum.2023.13084571308457Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS studyHejun Liu0Qihan Zhang1Jon D. Elhai2Jon D. Elhai3Christian Montag4Haibo Yang5Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaAcademy of Psychology and Behavior, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United StatesDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United StatesDepartment of Molecular Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, GermanyAcademy of Psychology and Behavior, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaPeople are evolutionarily predisposed to associate threat relevant stimuli with fear or aversiveness and show an attentional bias toward threat. Attentional bias modification (ABM) has been shown to reduce threat biases, while quantitative reviews assessing the effectiveness of bias modification yielded inconsistent results. The current study examined the relationship between the training effect of attentional bias to threat and the type of threatening stimuli. Twenty-two participants performed a modified dot-probe task while undergoing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) imaging. Results indicated that there was a strong pattern of attentional avoidance among individuals in an animal but not human threat condition. Furthermore, findings from fNIRS confirmed that the influence from type of threatening stimulus would be modulated by cortical activation patterns, especially in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortices (vlPFC) and angular gyrus. Overall, these results suggest that stimulus-specific may play a major role in personalization of specific psychological interventions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1308457/fullattentional biaseye gazefunctional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)threat typeattentional bias modification (ABM) |
| spellingShingle | Hejun Liu Qihan Zhang Jon D. Elhai Jon D. Elhai Christian Montag Haibo Yang Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study Frontiers in Human Neuroscience attentional bias eye gaze functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) threat type attentional bias modification (ABM) |
| title | Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study |
| title_full | Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study |
| title_fullStr | Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study |
| title_short | Attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content: an fNIRS study |
| title_sort | attentional bias to threat is modulated by stimulus content an fnirs study |
| topic | attentional bias eye gaze functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) threat type attentional bias modification (ABM) |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1308457/full |
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