Attention Training for Underserved Youth With Anxiety

"Each trial begins with a fixation cross at the center of the computer screen for 500 ms. The cross is then replaced by a face pair presented in the center of the screen. The face pair disappears and a probe (letter E or F) appears immediately in the location of one of the two previous stimuli. Youth will be instructed to decide whether the letter is an E or an F and press the corresponding mouse button. This paradigm has been modified to facilitate an attention bias away from threat material. In this case, the probe always replaces the neutral stimuli. Thus, although there will be no specific instruction to direct attention away from the threat stimuli, on all trials, the position of the neutral stimulus will indicate the position of the probe."

"Each trial begins with a fixation cross presented in the center of the computer screen. The cross is then replaced by a face pair presented in the center of the screen. The face pair disappears and a probe (letter E or F) appears immediately in the location of one of the two previous stimuli. Youth will be instructed to decide whether the letter is an E or an F and press the corresponding mouse button. This paradigm is not intended to facilitate an attention bias away from threat material. In this case, the probe randomly replaces the threat or neutral stimulus."