#  Eye-tracking methodologies to change cognitive bias in depression 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 31, 2016** 

 09:00AM - 10:00AM EDT 

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 **Harvard Psychology Department, William James Hall, Room 1251**  



 

 



 

Depression is associated to a number of cognitive biases. Depressed people pay less attention to positive information, recall more negative than positive information, and interpret ambiguous information in a negative way. In the last few years, there has been a number of cognitive interventions directly aimed at modifying these biases. In this presentation I will provide a general overview of a new procedure, based on eye-tracking automated procedures, to train depressed participants' attention towards positive stimuli (i.e., happy faces) while avoiding negative stimuli (i.e., sad faces). This is a proof of principle study to test the possibility to train attentional biases and it's possible impact on depressive symptoms. This project is sponsored by an i+d EXPLORA grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy in which Prof. Richard McNally from Harvard university (Dept. Psychology) is also a member of the team.

**Speaker:** Carmelo Vazquez, Professor of Psychology at UCM

**Sponsor:** RCC



 

 



 

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