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01-02-2025 | Research

Hypervigilance strikes a balance between external and internal attention: behavioral and modeling evidence from the switching attention task

Auteurs: Nan Wang, Sam Verschooren, Luc Vermeylen, Ivan Grahek, Gilles Pourtois

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 1/2025

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Abstract

Hypervigilance involves increased attentional scanning of the environment to facilitate the detection of possible threats. Accordingly, this state is mostly bound to external attention and as a corollary, it might be detrimental to internal attention and further affect attentional balance defined as the ability to switch dynamically between these two domains. In the current study, we aimed to address this question and induced hypervigilance in 49 healthy participants through the presentation of a task-unrelated aversive sound while they performed the switching attention task (SAT), which was previously devised to study attentional balance. The skin conductance response results, as well as subjective sound ratings, confirmed that the hypervigilance manipulation was successful. At the behavioral level, hypervigilance led to a more symmetrical balance between internal and external attention compared to the control and neutral conditions, where it was asymmetrical, replicating previous studies. Moreover, using a drift diffusion model, we found that hypervigilance reduced the drift rate for internal repetition trials, suggesting that hypervigilance possibly caused an impaired shielding of internal attention.
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Participants were excluded primarily based on accuracy, with those scoring below 60% in any of the twelve conditions being removed. This exclusion process was carried out after each test batch, which involved 5–8 participants at a time.
 
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7 out of 49 participants were left-handed, however, they all reported they felt comfortable to use their right hand to perform the task. Therefore, the SCR was recorded from the left hand for all participants.
 
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This model was the second best model during model comparison, which had a comparable BFM compared to the best model (BFM=12.397). We chose the second best model because we were mostly interested in the three-way interaction between Switch Type, Attention Type, and Emotion.
 
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We also examined boundary separation (a) with an extra model estimation (see Table S4 in Supplementary Materials).
 
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S – switch, R – repeat; E – external, I – internal.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Hypervigilance strikes a balance between external and internal attention: behavioral and modeling evidence from the switching attention task
Auteurs
Nan Wang
Sam Verschooren
Luc Vermeylen
Ivan Grahek
Gilles Pourtois
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2025
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 1/2025
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-02028-6