ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2016
A developmental neuroscience perspective on affect-biased attention.
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- Dimensions of Early-Life Adversity and Attention Biases in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- Fetal Cortisol Exposure and Offspring Socioemotional Development.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Using novel neural measures to explore the development of infant attention bias to threat.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
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- Precision Functional Mapping to Advance Developmental Psychiatry Research.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Review
- Young Children of Mothers with a History of Depression Show Attention Bias to Sad Faces: An Eye-tracking Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Differential effects of attachment security on visual fixation to facial expressions of emotion in 14-month-old infants: an eye-tracking study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- AttentionCARE: replicability of a BCI for the clinical application of augmented reality-guided EEG-based attention modification for adolescents at high risk for depression.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Maternal anxiety during pregnancy predicts infant attention to affective faces.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- An Integrative Model of Youth Anxiety: Cognitive-Affective Processes and Parenting in Developmental Context.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Article
- Attention Bias and Anxiety: The Moderating Effect of Sociocultural Variables in Rural Latinx Youth.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- Attentional biases for sad faces in offspring of mothers with a history of major depression: trajectories of change from childhood to adolescence.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
- Infant and maternal responses to emotional facial expressions: A longitudinal study.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
- Infant negative affectivity and patterns of affect-biased attention.Developmental psychobiology · 2023Article
- Assessing bidirectional relations between infant temperamental negative affect, maternal anxiety symptoms and infant affect-biased attention across the first 24-months of life.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
- Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life.Child development · 2022Article
- Within-person changes in basal cortisol and caregiving modulate executive attention across infancy.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
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Abstract
There is growing interest regarding the impact of affect-biased attention on psychopathology. However, most of the research to date lacks a developmental approach. In the present review, we examine the role affect-biased attention plays in shaping socioemotional trajectories within a developmental neuroscience framework. We propose that affect-biased attention, particularly if stable and entrenched, acts as a developmental tether that helps sustain early socioemotional and behavioral profiles over time, placing some individuals on maladaptive developmental trajectories. Although most of the evidence is found in the anxiety literature, we suggest that these relations may operate across multiple domains of interest, including positive affect, externalizing behaviors, drug use, and eating behaviors. We also review the general mechanisms and neural correlates of affect-biased attention, as well as the current evidence for the co-development of attention and affect. Based on the reviewed literature, we propose a model that may help us better understand the nuances of affect-biased attention across development. The model may serve as a strong foundation for ongoing attempts to identify neurocognitive mechanisms and intervene with individuals at risk. Finally, we discuss open issues for future research that may help bridge existing gaps in the literature.
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