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Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias

Overview of attention for article published in Cognition, December 2015
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Title
Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias
Published in
Cognition, December 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.006
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Authors

Mario Weick, John A. Allen, Milica Vasiljevic, Bo Yao

Abstract

Healthy individuals display a tendency to allocate attention unequally across space, and this bias has implications for how individuals interact with their environments. However, the origins of this phenomenon remain relatively poorly understood. The present research examined the joint and independent contributions of two fundamental motivational systems - behavioural approach and inhibition systems (BAS and BIS) - to lateral spatial bias in a locomotion task. Participants completed self-report measures of trait BAS and BIS, then repeatedly traversed a room, blindfolded, aiming for a straight line. We obtained locomotion data from motion tracking to capture variations in the walking trajectories. Overall, walking trajectories deviated to the left, and this tendency was more pronounced with increasing BIS scores. Meanwhile, BAS was associated with relative rightward tendencies when BIS was low, but not when BIS was high. These results demonstrate for the first time an association between BIS and lateral spatial bias independently of variations in BAS. The findings also contribute to clarify the circumstances in which BAS is associated with a rightward bias. We discuss the implications of these findings for the neurobiological underpinnings of BIS and for the literature on spatial bias.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
France 1 2%
Unknown 60 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 16%
Student > Master 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Other 13 21%
Unknown 11 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 13%
Neuroscience 5 8%
Sports and Recreations 4 6%
Linguistics 3 5%
Other 13 21%
Unknown 13 21%
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