Hu, Yixin and Liao, Rui and Chen, Weiling and Kong, Xiangwei and Liu, Jingyi and Liu, Dongxu and Maguire, Phil and Zhou, Shengqi and Wang, Dawei (2020) Investigating behavior inhibition in obsessive‐compulsive disorder: Evidence from eye movements. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 61 (5). pp. 634-641. ISSN 0036-5564

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Abstract

We investigated the role of inhibition failure in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) through an eye tracking experiment. Twenty‐five subjects with OCD were recruited, as well as 25 with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and 25 healthy controls. A 3 (group: OCD group, GAD group and control group) × 2 (target eccentricity: far and near) × 2 (saccade task: prosaccade and antisaccade) mixed design was used, with all participants completing two sets of tasks involving both prosaccade (eye movement towards a target) and antisaccade (eye movement away from a target). The main outcome was the eye movement index, including the saccade latency (the time interval from the onset of the target screen to the first saccade) and the error rate of saccade direction. The antisaccade latency and antisaccade error rates for OCDs were much higher than those for GADs and healthy controls. OCDs had longer latency and error rates for antisaccades than for prosaccades, and for far‐eccentricity rather than near‐eccentricity stimuli. These results suggest that OCDs experience difficulty with behavior inhibition, and that they have higher visual sensitivity to peripheral stimuli. In particular, they show greatest difficulty in inhibiting behavior directed towards peripheral stimuli.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Obsessive‐compulsive disorder; behaviour inhibition; antisaccade; prosaccade;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	16243
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12620
Depositing User:	Phil Maguire
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2022 08:14
Journal or Publication Title:	Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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