Eye Tracking in Anxiety Disorders

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 216

Special Issue Editor

Poole House P252, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
Interests: social anxiety; attention; eye movements; autism; social cognition

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Attentional biases are a core feature of social anxiety (SA). However, these dynamic attentional processes have often been overlooked in eye-tracking paradigms which have utilized only static stimuli or analyzed only limited parameters from the eye movement record. Recent research has highlighted the importance of considering both spatial and temporal characteristics of attention in social anxiety, as well as the ecological validity of paradigms employed in generating results which can be extrapolated to the real social world.

This Special Issue of the international journal of Brain Sciences is devoted to novel, dynamic eye-tracking research which measures attention and/or gaze following in spatial and temporal dimensions in socially anxious populations. In bringing together contemporary research from the forefront of the field, this Special Issue will make a substantial contribution to knowledge in the field of attention in social anxiety.

We welcome the submission of protocols, original research articles, short reports, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses on this topic. We are interested in submissions which are as wide-ranging as possible across social anxiety (in both clinical and analogue populations) and eye tracking. Studies using innovative research methods to study this topic are particularly welcome.

Dr. Nicola Jean Gregory
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • social anxiety
  • SAD
  • attention
  • self-focused attention
  • avoidance
  • gaze following
  • eye movements
  • eye tracking
  • fixations
  • saccades
  • hypervigilance
  • avoidance
  • scanpath

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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