What are you looking at? Moving toward an attentional timeline in insomnia: a novel semantic eye tracking study.

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STUDY OBJECTIVES: To date, cognitive probe paradigms have been used in different guises to obtain reaction time measurements suggestive of an attention bias towards sleep in insomnia. This study adopts a methodology which is novel to sleep research to obtain a continual record of where the eyes-and therefore attention-are being allocated with regard to sleep and neutral stimuli. DESIGN: A head mounted eye tracker (Eyelink II,SR Research, Ontario, Canada) was used to monitor eye movements in r...

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Authors: Woods, H; Scheepers, C; Ross, K; Espie, C; Biello, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Sleep
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1491-1499
• Publication date: 2013-10-01
• DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3042
• EISSN: 1550-9109
• ISSN: 0161-8105
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Humans; Young Adult; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Semantics; Attention; Eye Movements; Case-Control Studies; Male; Reaction Time; Eye Movement Measurements; Fixation, Ocular