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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychopathology

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  • Objective measures of mental health are crucial for transdiagnostic psychopathology frameworks.
  • Altered visual processing is a potential indicator of psychopathology.
  • Affective distractors can impact attentional resources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the visuocortical impact of affective distractors on attentional resources in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
  • To compare attentional resource allocation in individuals with OCD versus controls under varying distraction conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Used steady-state visual evoked potentials (ssVEPs) to measure visuocortical engagement.
  • Employed a foreground task (coherent motion detection) overlaid with distractor images (pleasant, neutral, unpleasant, OCD-evoking).
  • Applied the distraction under competition (DUC) model to analyze attention selection.

Main Results:

  • The OCD group exhibited stronger visuocortical competition, indicating reduced task engagement, especially with unpleasant and OCD-evoking pictures.
  • The DUC model effectively captured attentional dynamics in both groups.
  • Unpleasant and OCD-evoking stimuli significantly competed for attentional resources in the OCD group.

Conclusions:

  • Individuals with OCD demonstrate significant visuocortical competition and impaired attentional resource allocation when exposed to affective and disorder-relevant distractors.
  • These findings highlight the role of visual processing alterations in OCD.
  • The DUC model provides a valuable framework for understanding attentional deficits in psychopathology.