期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 122, 期 -, 页码 121-129出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.10.004
关键词
Anxiety; Development; Attention allocation; Eye tracking; Pupil dilation; Social and non-social stimuli
资金
- Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant [PCIG13-GA-2013-618534]
- Israel Science Foundation [1377/14]
The current study examines anxiety and age associations with attention allocation and physiological response to threats and rewards. Twenty-two healthy-adults, 20 anxious-adults, 26 healthy-youth, and 19 anxious-youth completed two eye-tracking tasks. In the Visual Scene Task (VST), participants' fixations were recorded while they viewed a central neutral image flanked by two threatening or two rewarding stimuli. In the Negative Words Task (NWT), physiological response was measured by means of pupil diameter change while negative and neutral words were presented. For both tasks, no interaction was found between anxiety and age-group. In the VST, anxious participants avoided the threatening images when groups were collapsed across age. Similarly, adults but not adolescents avoided the threatening images when collapsed across anxiety. No differences were found for rewarding images. In NWT, all subjects demonstrated increase in pupil dilation after word presentation. Only main effect of age emerged with stronger pupil dilation in adults than children. Finally, maximum pupil change was correlated with threat avoidance bias in the scene task. Gaze patterns and pupil dilation show that anxiety and age are associated with attention allocation to threats. The relations between attention and autonomic arousal point to a complex interaction between bottom-up and top-down processes as they relate to attention allocation. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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