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Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The present meta-analysis systematically compared attentional bias for positive compared with neutral visual stimuli across 243 studies (N = 9,120 healthy participants) that used different types of attentional paradigms and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Attentional processes have been suggested to play a crucial role in resilience defined as positive adaptation facing adversity. However, research is lacking on associations between attentional biases to positive and threat-related stimuli, attentional control and trait resilience. METHODS Data stem from the follow-up assessment of a longitudinal study investigating m...

Cognitive and behavioural responses to food reward, such as attentional biases and overeating, have been associated with individual differences in reward-responsiveness and impulsivity. This study investigated relationships between external eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues, assessed using the pictorial visual-probe task. As previously reported, attentional bias correlated p...

Attentional capture is assumed to automatically trigger attentional engagement, which gates working memory access. However, recent studies show that engagement not a necessary outcome of and can be disrupted by manipulations leave intact. In this commentary, I suggest these findings have important implications for the debate. Mainly, they may different consequences under conditions. Moreover, c...