Barking up the wrong tree in attentional bias modification? Comparing the sensitivity of four tasks to attentional biases

Ó Sigurjónsdóttir, S Sigurðardóttir, AS Björnsson… - Journal of Behavior …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Attentional bias modification (ABM) is a potentially exciting new
development in the treatment of anxiety disorders. However, reported therapeutic benefits …

Absence of evidence or evidence of absence: reflecting on therapeutic implementations of attentional bias modification

PJF Clarke, L Notebaert, C MacLeod - BMC psychiatry, 2014 - Springer
Attentional bias modification (ABM) represents one of a number of cognitive bias
modification techniques which are beginning to show promise as therapeutic interventions …

Efficacy of attention bias modification using threat and appetitive stimuli: A meta-analytic review

C Beard, AT Sawyer, SG Hofmann - Behavior therapy, 2012 - Elsevier
Attention bias modification (ABM) protocols aim to modify attentional biases underlying
many forms of pathology. Our objective was to conduct an effect size analysis of ABM across …

The effects of a visual search attentional bias modification paradigm on attentional bias in dysphoric individuals

AW Kruijt, P Putman, W Van der Does - Journal of Behavior Therapy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) may constitute a
new type of treatment for affective disorders. ABM refers to computerized training programs …

Clinical efficacy of attentional bias modification procedures: An updated meta‐analysis

C Mogoaşe, D David… - Journal of Clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Context Attentional bias modification (ABM) treatment is a promising intervention tool for a
variety of clinical conditions. Objectives This study provides an updated review of the clinical …

Attention bias modification training under working memory load increases the magnitude of change in attentional bias

PJF Clarke, S Branson, NTM Chen… - Journal of Behavior …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Attention bias modification (ABM) procedures have shown
promise as a therapeutic intervention, however current ABM procedures have proven …

Attention bias modification for anxiety and phobias: current status and future directions

JM Kuckertz, N Amir - Current psychiatry reports, 2015 - Springer
Attention bias modification (ABM) was introduced over a decade ago as a computerized
method of manipulating attentional bias and has been followed by intense interest in …

Limited generalisation of changes in attentional bias following attentional bias modification with the visual probe task

B Van Bockstaele, E Salemink, SM Bögels… - Cognition and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Although attentional bias modification (ABM) can change anxiety, recent studies failed to
replicate such effects, possibly because the visual probe ABM failed to induce changes in …

Anxiety-linked attentional bias and its modification: Illustrating the importance of distinguishing processes and procedures in experimental psychopathology research

C MacLeod, B Grafton - Behaviour research and therapy, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review of research concerning anxiety-linked attentional bias, we seek to illustrate a
general principle that we contend applies across the breadth of experimental …

Computational modeling applied to the dot-probe task yields improved reliability and mechanistic insights

RB Price, V Brown, GJ Siegle - Biological psychiatry, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Biased patterns of attention are implicated as key mechanisms across many
forms of psychopathology and have given rise to automated mechanistic interventions …