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The contextual goal dependent attentional flexibility (CoGoDAF) framework : a new approach to attention bias in depression

Malvika Godara, Alvaro Sanchez Lopez (UGent) and Rudi De Raedt (UGent)
(2023) BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 167.
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Successful adaptation to the environment requires attentional prioritization of emotional information relevant to the current situational demands. Accordingly, the presence of an attention bias (AB) for both positive and negative information may allow preferential processing of stimuli in line with the current situational goals. However, AB for negative information sometimes becomes maladaptive, being antithetical to the current adaptive needs and goals of an individual, such as in the case of affective disorders such as depression. Although difficulties in flexible shifting between emotional stimuli in depression have increasingly become a topic of discussion in the field, an integrative approach towards biased versus flexible emotional attentional processes remains absent. In the present paper, we advance a novel and integrative view of conceptualizing potentially aberrant affective attention patterns in depression as a function of the current contextual features. We propose that flexible emotional attention takes place as a result of attention prioritization towards goal-relevant emotional stimuli depending upon the current context of the individual. Specifically, the roles of context, distal and proximal goals, and approach and avoidance motivation processes are considered in a unified manner. The empirical, clinical, and interventional implications of this integrative framework provide a roadmap for future psychological and neurobiological experimental and translational research.
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Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Context, Flexibility, Attention, Goals, Depression, GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER, EMOTIONAL INFORMATION, SELECTIVE, ATTENTION, COGNITIVE-CONTROL, VISUAL-ATTENTION, CONSTRUCT ACCESSIBILITY, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, CLINICAL DEPRESSION, NEURAL MECHANISMS, NEGATIVE, INFORMATION

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MLA
Godara, Malvika, et al. “The Contextual Goal Dependent Attentional Flexibility (CoGoDAF) Framework : A New Approach to Attention Bias in Depression.” BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY, vol. 167, 2023, doi:10.1016/j.brat.2023.104354.
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Godara, M., Sanchez Lopez, A., & De Raedt, R. (2023). The contextual goal dependent attentional flexibility (CoGoDAF) framework : a new approach to attention bias in depression. BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY, 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104354
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Godara, Malvika, Alvaro Sanchez Lopez, and Rudi De Raedt. 2023. “The Contextual Goal Dependent Attentional Flexibility (CoGoDAF) Framework : A New Approach to Attention Bias in Depression.” BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104354.
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Godara, Malvika, Alvaro Sanchez Lopez, and Rudi De Raedt. 2023. “The Contextual Goal Dependent Attentional Flexibility (CoGoDAF) Framework : A New Approach to Attention Bias in Depression.” BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY 167. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2023.104354.
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Godara M, Sanchez Lopez A, De Raedt R. The contextual goal dependent attentional flexibility (CoGoDAF) framework : a new approach to attention bias in depression. BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2023;167.
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M. Godara, A. Sanchez Lopez, and R. De Raedt, “The contextual goal dependent attentional flexibility (CoGoDAF) framework : a new approach to attention bias in depression,” BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY, vol. 167, 2023.
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