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Changes in Selective Attentional Patterns Towards Emotional Stimuli by Using Eye-tracking Techniques: A New Intervention for Depression
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Gaze training and Placebo intervention for Cognitive Deficits and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 32 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Cognitive biases are a hallmark of depression but there is scarce research on whether these biases can be directly modified by using specific cognitive training techniques. The aim of this study will be targeting and modifying specifically relevant attention biases in participants with subclinical depression using eye-tracking methodologies. This innovative approach has been proposed as a promising future line of intervention in Attention Bias Modification procedures (Koster \& Hoorelbeke, 2015). Recent findings suggest that depression is characterized by a double attentional bias (Duque \& Vazquez, 2015), More specifically, depressed individuals have difficulties both to disengage from negative materials (e.g., sad faces) and to engage with positive materials (e.g., happy faces). Thus, training procedures to change attentional biases should target these two separate components.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants are required to maintain their gaze in a given picture (e.g., a happy face), for a given time (i.e., 750ms vs 1500 ms) to advance to the next trial. (A total of 576 trials will be distributed in a 2-day intervention).
Participants are exposed to the same amount of time to the experimental stimuli used in the experimental group but there is no contingency between participants' gaze patterns and the end of each of the 576 trials.