Journal of Psychiatry

Gang Wang

Publications

• Research Article
  Attentional Bias in Remitted Depressed Patients: Evidence from an Eye- Tracking Study
  Author(s): Mi Li, Shengfu Lu, Lei Feng, Bingbing Fu, Gang Wang, Ning Zhon and Bin HuMi Li, Shengfu Lu, Lei Feng, Bingbing Fu, Gang Wang, Ning Zhon and Bin Hu
  
  Objectives: To investigate the attentional bias characteristics of remitted depressed (RD) patients toward both happy and sad facial expressions. Methods: Eye-movement data for the free-viewing facial expressions information of two groups (RD patients and healthy control (HC)) were acquired using the eye-tracking technique. The RD patients’ initial attentional orientation toward different pieces of emotional information and their attentional bias related to the attention-maintenance components were analyzed. Results: (1) On the initial orienting indicators (direction of initial gaze and initial fixation latency) and the initial attention maintenance indicators (first fixation duration), the RD patients showed no attentional bias toward the emotional faces; (2) For the late-stage attention maintenance indicators (total fixation time), both the RD group and the HC group exhibited .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2378-5756.1000384

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