Attentional Bias Towards Emotional Information in Patients with Cancer
Objective:To investigate the feature and processing mechanism of the attentional bias to emotional information in cancer patients.Methods:Cancer patients and healthy individuals were tested with a dot-probe task to examine the impact of the different emotional pictures and stimulus presenting time on attentional bias.Results:①Attention biases toward negative emotional cues and away from positive emotional cues existed in cancer patients.②When the,response time on negative emotion was significantly shorter and that on the positive emotion picture was longer in cancer patients than normal controls.However,no differences of response time were found while stimulus were presented for 1250ms.③In cancer patients,compared to the female patients,male patients showed longer response time on negative emotion pictures.Conclusion:Attentional bias to negative emotion exists in cancer patients that occurs at the early stage of cognitive processing,and the male patients may have more severe attentional biases to the negative emotion than the female.
Cancer patientsEmotionAttentional biasDot-probe task
国家科技期刊平台
NSTL
万方数据
维普
