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Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task
Contemporary cognitive theories of anxiety and attention processing propose that heightened levels of anxiety vulnerability are associated with a decreasing ability to inhibit the allocation of attention towards task-irrelevant information. Existing performance-based research has most often used eye...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918577/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35292933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01800-z |
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author | Basanovic, Julian Todd, Jemma van Bockstaele, Bram Notebaert, Lies Meeten, Frances Clarke, Patrick J. F. |
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description | Contemporary cognitive theories of anxiety and attention processing propose that heightened levels of anxiety vulnerability are associated with a decreasing ability to inhibit the allocation of attention towards task-irrelevant information. Existing performance-based research has most often used eye-movement assessment variants of the antisaccade paradigm to demonstrate such effects. Critically, however, eye-movement assessment methods are limited by expense, the need for expert training in administration, and limited mobility and scalability. These barriers have likely led to researchers’ use of suboptimal methods of assessing the relationship between attentional control and anxiety vulnerability. The present study examined the capacity for a non-eye-movement-based variant of the antisaccade task, the masked-target antisaccade task (Guitton et al., 1985), to detect anxiety-linked differences in attentional control. Participants (N = 342) completed an assessment of anxiety vulnerability and performed the masked-target antisaccade task in an online assessment session. Greater levels of anxiety vulnerability predicted poorer performance on the task, consistent with findings observed from eye-movement methods and with cognitive theories of anxiety and attention processing. Results also revealed the task to have high internal reliability. Our findings indicate that the masked-target antisaccade task provides a psychometrically reliable, low-cost, mobile, and scalable assessment of anxiety-linked differences in attentional control. |
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spelling | pubmed-99185772023-02-12 Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task Basanovic, Julian Todd, Jemma van Bockstaele, Bram Notebaert, Lies Meeten, Frances Clarke, Patrick J. F. Behav Res Methods Article Contemporary cognitive theories of anxiety and attention processing propose that heightened levels of anxiety vulnerability are associated with a decreasing ability to inhibit the allocation of attention towards task-irrelevant information. Existing performance-based research has most often used eye-movement assessment variants of the antisaccade paradigm to demonstrate such effects. Critically, however, eye-movement assessment methods are limited by expense, the need for expert training in administration, and limited mobility and scalability. These barriers have likely led to researchers’ use of suboptimal methods of assessing the relationship between attentional control and anxiety vulnerability. The present study examined the capacity for a non-eye-movement-based variant of the antisaccade task, the masked-target antisaccade task (Guitton et al., 1985), to detect anxiety-linked differences in attentional control. Participants (N = 342) completed an assessment of anxiety vulnerability and performed the masked-target antisaccade task in an online assessment session. Greater levels of anxiety vulnerability predicted poorer performance on the task, consistent with findings observed from eye-movement methods and with cognitive theories of anxiety and attention processing. Results also revealed the task to have high internal reliability. Our findings indicate that the masked-target antisaccade task provides a psychometrically reliable, low-cost, mobile, and scalable assessment of anxiety-linked differences in attentional control. Springer US 2022-03-15 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9918577/ /pubmed/35292933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01800-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Basanovic, Julian Todd, Jemma van Bockstaele, Bram Notebaert, Lies Meeten, Frances Clarke, Patrick J. F. Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task |
title | Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task |
title_full | Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task |
title_fullStr | Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task |
title_short | Assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: The masked-target antisaccade task |
title_sort | assessing anxiety-linked impairment in attentional control without eye-tracking: the masked-target antisaccade task |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918577/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35292933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01800-z |
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