Eye movement evidence for defocused attention in dysphoria — A perceptual span analysis

Publication year: 2011 Source: International Journal of Psychophysiology, Available online 25 October 2011 Aneta Brzezicka, Izabela Krejtz, Ulrich von Hecker, Jochen Laubrock The defocused attention hypothesis (von Hecker and Meiser, 2005) assumes that negative mood broadens attention, whereas the analytical rumination hypothesis (Andrews and Thompson, 2009) suggests a narrowing of the attentional focus with depression. We tested these conflicting hypotheses by directly measuring the perceptual span in groups of dysphoric and control subjects, using eye tracking. In the moving window paradigm, information outside of a variable-width gaze-contingent window was masked during reading of sentences

Publication year: 2011 Source: International Journal of Psychophysiology, Available online 25 October 2011 Aneta Brzezicka, Izabela Krejtz, Ulrich von Hecker, Jochen Laubrock The defocused attention hypothesis (von Hecker and Meiser, 2005) assumes that negative mood broadens attention, whereas the analytical rumination hypothesis (Andrews and Thompson, 2009) suggests a narrowing of the attentional focus with depression. We tested these conflicting hypotheses by directly measuring the perceptual span in groups of dysphoric and control subjects, using eye tracking. In the moving window paradigm, information outside of a variable-width gaze-contingent window was masked during reading of sentences

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Eye movement evidence for defocused attention in dysphoria — A perceptual span analysis

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