Attention Feedback Awareness and Control Training (A-FACT): Experimental test of a novel intervention paradigm targeting attentional bias

Bernstein, Amit; Zvielli, Ariel

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2014.01.003

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“…Indeed, this more precise operationalization of AB may inform study of its etiology (e.g., genes, learning) [53]–[55], AB relations with variables of interest such as anxiety [4], neural substrate [56]–[58], as well as AB intervention outcomes (e.g., Attention Bias Modification Training (ABMT) [49], [50], [59], [60]; Attention Feedback Awareness and Control Training (A-FACT) [61]). …”

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Dynamics of Attentional Bias to Threat in Anxious Adults: Bias towards and/or Away?

Zvielli

Bernstein

Koster³

2014

PLoS ONE

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The aim of the present study was to question untested assumptions about the nature of the expression of Attentional Bias (AB) towards and away from threat stimuli. We tested the idea that high trait anxious individuals (N = 106; M(SD)age = 23.9(3.2) years; 68% women) show a stable AB towards multiple categories of threatening information using the emotional visual dot probe task. AB with respect to five categories of threat stimuli (i.e., angry faces, attacking dogs, attacking snakes, pointed weapons, violent scenes) was evaluated. In contrast with current theories, we found that 34% of participants expressed AB towards threat stimuli, 20.8% AB away from threat stimuli, and 34% AB towards some categories of threat stimuli and away from others. The multiple observed expressions of AB were not an artifact of a specific criterion AB score cut-off; not specific to certain categories of threat stimuli; not an artifact of differences in within-subject variability in reaction time; nor accounted for by individual differences in anxiety-related variables. Findings are conceptualized as reflecting the understudied dynamics of AB expression, with implications for AB measurement and quantification, etiology, relations, and intervention research.

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Dynamics of Attentional Bias to Threat in Anxious Adults: Bias towards and/or Away?

Zvielli

Bernstein

Koster³

2014

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“…This suggests that ABM is not yet ready for dissemination as a stand-alone treatment or as an adjunct to traditional CBT for SAD. Reasonable steps would be to apply new methods for computing reliable RT indices of AB that reflect its dynamic nature (e.g., Price et al, 2015;Zvielli et al, in press), and to use gamified ABM paradigms that are motivationally engaging (e.g., Dennis & O'Toole, 2014;Enock, 2015;Notebaert, Clarke, Grafton, & MacLeod, 2015) and that provide feedback to participants during training (e.g., Bernstein & Zvielli, 2014;Enock, 2015).…”

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Attention bias modification for social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Heeren

Mogoaşe

Philippot

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Clinical Psychology Review

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“…Bernstein and Zvielli (2014) recruited participants who scored high in trait anxiety and displayed an attentional bias toward threat. These participants completed a single session of a probe task employing threatening and nonthreatening images.…”

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The Attentional Bias Modification Approach to Anxiety Intervention

MacLeod

Clarke

2015

Clinical Psychological Science

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Anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction are characterized by an attentional bias to threat. Cognitive training procedures designed to modify selective attentional responding to threat originally were developed to test the hypothesis that this attentional bias causally contributes to anxious disposition. The capacity of attentional bias modification (ABM) training to alleviate dysfunctional anxiety has since attracted growing interest, and the present article reviews studies that have evaluated this therapeutic potential. When intended ABM training has successfully reduced attention to threat, it also has reduced anxiety vulnerability and symptomatology with a high degree of reliability. When the delivery of intended ABM training has not resulted in such anxiety reduction, this typically has reflected the failure to successfully modify attentional selectivity as required. We discuss ways in which ABM training procedures may be refined to optimize their capacity to reduce attentional bias to threat, to improve delivery of the resulting anxiolytic benefits.

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Attention Feedback Awareness and Control Training (A-FACT): Experimental test of a novel intervention paradigm targeting attentional bias

Cited by 59 publications

References 58 publications

Dynamics of Attentional Bias to Threat in Anxious Adults: Bias towards and/or Away?

Dynamics of Attentional Bias to Threat in Anxious Adults: Bias towards and/or Away?

Attention bias modification for social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The Attentional Bias Modification Approach to Anxiety Intervention

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