Free-viewing multi-stimulus eye tracking task to index attention bias for alcohol versus soda cues: Satisfactory reliability and criterion validity

Abstract

Free-viewing multi-stimulus eye tracking task to index attention bias for alcohol versus soda cues: Satisfactory reliability and criterion validity. Addictive Behaviors, 100, [106117].

Effectiveness of attentional bias modification training as add-on to regular treatment in alcohol and cannabis use disorder: A multicenter randomized control trial

“…However, the high error rate of the OOOT may have prevented it from having sufficient sensitivity to adequately capture the effects of the BITT on AB [ 51 ]. Future studies may benefit from using an improved version of the OOOT (for recommendations, see [ 52 ]) or an alternative AB task with better psychometric properties (for example based on eye-tracking procedures such as described in [ 53 ]) to index the impact of ABM on individuals’ AB.…”

Soleymani, Mazidi, Neimeijer, de Jong (2021). Eating disorder-specific rumination moderates the association between attentional bias to high-caloric foods and eating disorder symptoms: Evidence from a reliable free-viewing eye-tracking task.

“…Therefore, the present study examined the reliability indices of a recently developed free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm within the eating disorder context. The same free-viewing paradigm has been employed within the context of social anxiety (Lazarov et al, 2016), depression (Lazarov et al, 2018), and alcohol consumption (Soleymani et al, 2020) and has shown good to excellent internal consistency for the dwell-time based indices.…”

“…Firstly, we examined the reliability of a modified version of the free-viewing task originally designed by Lazarov et al (2016) as a measure of attentional bias to food pictures. Consistent with previous studies (Lazarov et al, 2016(Lazarov et al, , 2018Soleymani et al, 2020), we computed eye-tracking measures of both early (first fixation location and latency) and later attention (total dwell time), and examined their relationships with measures of several relevant constructs i.e. self-report measures of hunger, dietary restraint, general and eating-related rumination, eating disorder symptoms, and subjective attitudes towards food images.…”

“…Finally, the very limited number of stimuli that RT-based tasks can present in each trialtypically just a pair of images or wordshas raised the concern about their task representativeness of the complexity and richness of the real-life food relevant situations (Hertel & Mathews, 2011;Richards, Benson, Donnelly, & Hadwin, 2014). A way to overcome this limitation is by employing tasks with a more complex stimulus configuration and various competing stimuli to reflect the complexity of the world in a more ecologically valid approach (Lazarov, Abend, & Bar-Haim, 2016;Richards et al, 2014;Soleymani, Ivanov, Mathot, & de Jong, 2020).…”

“…Previous studies in the area of alcohol and affective disorders have successfully employed this paradigm with more complex stimuli displays and found promising results in terms of reliability. For example, Soleymani et al (2020) recorded participants' eye-movements while they freely looking at an array of 16 images consisting of eight alcoholic and eight non-alcoholic beverages that were presented for 6 s during each trial. First fixation location, first fixation latency, and dwell time on alcoholic and non-alcoholic images were computed to index AB to alcoholic drinks.…”