Skip to main content
Fig. 1 | International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Fig. 1

From: Rumination related activity in brain networks mediating attentional switching in euthymic bipolar patients

Fig. 1

Introspection task and performance. a The fMRI task consists of two task conditions: internal and external attentional focus. Each trial begins with an instruction screen displayed during 2 s to indicate the task, followed by a word stimulus with a 3-option rating response displayed for 4 s. During internal trials, participants were asked to evaluate how much the word matched their current internal state. During external trials, they were asked to count how many letters the word included. Word meaning had either a negative or positive valence, and each item was presented in both task conditions. Across successive trials, the task conditions were either repeated or switched, thus yielding a 2 × 2 × 2 design overall l (condition*valence*sequence). b Average response times (RT) are shown for each event separately. Patients tend to have slower RTs overall with a marginal main effect of group (0.07), and switch trials were slower than repetition with a significant main effect of sequence (p < 0.01). See text for full statistical analyses of RTs

Back to article page