“…The attention task subsequently presents only the neutral stimuli to examine whether the learned associations with emotional content capture attention. In healthy individuals, studies have shown that associative learning of stable relations between a neutral stimulus (e.g., a shape or color) and aversive events (Anderson & Britton, 2019; Koster, Crombez, van Damme, Verschuere, & De Houwer, 2004; Schmidt, Belopolsky, & Theeuwes, 2015) or reward (Chelazzi, Perlato, Santandrea, & Della Libera, 2013; Hickey & van Zoest, 2013) involuntarily guides attention selection toward matching stimuli. For example, one study showed that task-irrelevant stimuli that were previously associated with reward, involuntarily capture attention and disrupt visual search for a salient target (Anderson, Laurent, & Yantis, 2011).…”