Attentional bias to pain-relevant body locations: New methods, new challenges
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- 作者：Stefaan Van Damme ; Stefaan.Vandamme@UGent.be" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Charlotte Vanden Bulcke ; Wouter Durnez ; Geert Crombez
- 关键词：Attention ; Temporal Order Judgment ; Experimental pain ; Bodily threat
- 刊名：Consciousness and Cognition
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：43
- 期：Complete
- 页码：128-132
- 全文大小：223 K
文摘
In a recent issue of Consciousness and Cognition, Filbrich, Torta, Vanderclausen, Azanon, and Legrain (2016) commented on a paper in which we used a tactile Temporal Order Judgment (TOJ) task to show that expecting pain on a specific body location biased attention to that location (Vanden Bulcke, Crombez, Durnez, & Van Damme, 2015). Their main criticism is that the effects are likely to reflect response bias rather than genuine attentional bias. We agree that the TOJ task used may be susceptible to response bias, and welcome the authors’ methodological suggestions to control for such bias. However, we feel that certain aspects of our work are misrepresented in their paper. Most importantly, we contest their argument that our instructions made the threat location task-relevant, thereby increasing risk of response bias. Further, we reply to other methodological and theoretical issues raised by these authors.