Spatial biases in approximate arithmetic are subject to sequential dependency effects and dissociate from attentional biases

Attentional biases and vulnerability to depression.

This study was designed to examine selective processing of emotional information in depression. It focuses on possible attentional biases in depression, and whether such biases constitute a cognitive vulnerability factor to suffer from the disorder or, on the contrary, they reflect a feature associated exclusively with the clinical level of depression. 81 participants were included in the study...

Attentional Biases during Steering Behavior

In the current study, we examine eye movements of human operators during a combined steering and discrimination task. In this task, observers had to alternate their gaze between a central steering task and a discrimination task in the periphery. Our results show that the observer’s gaze behavior is influenced by the motion direction of the steering task. Saccade reaction times (SRTs) of saccade...

Social reward shapes attentional biases.

Paying attention to stimuli that predict a reward outcome is important for an organism to survive and thrive. When visual stimuli are associated with tangible, extrinsic rewards such as money or food, these stimuli acquire high attentional priority and come to automatically capture attention. In humans and other primates, however, many behaviors are not motivated directly by such extrinsic rewa...

Spatial and Velocity Biases

We give a summary of our recent studies of spatial and velocity biases of galaxy-size halos in cosmological models. Recent progress in numerical techniques made it possible to simulate halos in large volumes with a such accuracy that halos survive in dense environments of groups and clusters of galaxies. While the very central parts of clusters still may have been affected by numerical effects,...

Rumination, attentional biases and psychological distress 1 1 Running Head: RUMINATION, ATTENTIONAL BIASES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS The role of rumination, attentional biases and stress in psychological distress