Evidence against mood-congruent attentional bias in Major Depressive Disorder. Psychiatry Res 2015 Dec 15;230(2):496-505
Date
10/20/2015Pubmed ID
26477954DOI
10.1016/j.psychres.2015.09.043Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84947054388 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 18 CitationsAbstract
Depression is consistently associated with biased retrieval and interpretation of affective stimuli, but evidence for depressive bias in earlier cognitive processing, such as attention, is mixed. In five separate experiments, individuals with depression (three experiments with clinically diagnosed major depression, two experiments with dysphoria measured via the Beck Depression Inventory) completed three tasks designed to elicit depressive biases in attention, including selective attention, attentional switching, and attentional inhibition. Selective attention was measured using a modified emotional Stroop task, while attentional switching and inhibition was examined via an emotional task-switching paradigm and an emotional counter task. Results across five different experiments indicate that individuals with depression perform comparably with healthy controls, providing corroboration that depression is not characterized by biases in attentional processes.
Author List
Cheng P, Preston SD, Jonides J, Mohr AH, Thummala K, Casement M, Hsing C, Deldin PJAuthor
Kirti Thummala PhD Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdolescentAdult
Affect
Attention
Depressive Disorder, Major
Emotions
Empathy
Executive Function
Facial Expression
Female
Humans
Male
Reaction Time
Reference Values
Semantics
Stroop Test
Young Adult
