ArticlePsychological research2021
Attentional avoidance of threatening stimuli.
Article in Psychological research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Pavlovian learning in the selection history-dependent control of overt spatial attention.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2022Article
- Testing reward-cue attentional salience: Attainment and dynamic changes.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2022Article
- An adaptive view of attentional control.The American psychologist · 2021Review
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- Using aversive conditioning with near-real-time feedback to shape eye movements during naturalistic viewing.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
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Abstract
Aversive conditioning has been shown to influence the control of attention, such that aversively conditioned stimuli receive elevated priority. Although aversively conditioned but task-irrelevant distractors are known to capture attention during speeded search in rapid orienting tasks, it is unclear whether this bias extends to situations where orienting can be more deliberate. We demonstrate that punishment, via electric shock, does not give rise to oculomotor capture by shock-associated stimuli during a foraging task; rather, such aversively conditioned stimuli are actively avoided when searching through a display. On the other hand, even during a foraging task, we found some evidence for a covert attentional bias to threat. Our findings indicate that the previously described effects of aversive conditioning on visual search may not generalize beyond the initial glance and can be suppressed when conditions allow for more deliberate search strategies. More generally, our findings reveal that sustained attentional avoidance of aversively conditioned stimuli is possible during active search.
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