Audit — Computerized Attention / Cognitive Modification Identity

Audit question

What intervention lineages are actually being grouped under the 2026 keynote phrases computerized attention modification training (EFCAP) and computerized cognitive-modification training (EAPL), and which endpoints can presently be assigned to each lineage?

Conclusion

The 2026 wording should not be modeled as one intervention. Publicly traceable evidence resolves at least three distinct computerized cognitive-modification lineages, with a fourth possible conference-stage attention line. The conference-level endpoint bundle therefore requires decomposition before efficacy can be graded.

Lineage A — GENAMAT: Attention Modification Training alone / combined with cTBS

Identity: New Generation Interventions for Antisocial Behaviour: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation combined with Attention Modification Training (GENAMAT).

Documented project logic: the project explicitly proposed two treatments: AMT alone and AMT combined with TMS, after identifying conduct-disorder subtypes and their attention/PFC profiles.

Project-level intended outcomes: DPL project materials advertise reducing anxiety, regulating anger, and improving interpersonal relationships. These are project aims/promotional descriptions, not efficacy findings.

Peer-reviewed outcome paper located: Sikki et al. (2025), randomized feasibility study, community young adults differentiated on anxiety.

Supported from that paper:

combined active cTBS + AMT altered attention toward positive stimuli;
gaze to happy facial features changed;
active cTBS + AMT was not superior to sham cTBS + AMT for self-reported anxiety reduction.

Not established by the identified peer-reviewed GENAMAT paper:

reduction in anger;
reduction in antisocial behavior;
reduction in psychopathic traits;
durable behavioral change.

Atlas status: matched-proximal for positive/emotional attention; tension for incremental anxiety benefit from active stimulation; unmapped for anger/antisocial/psychopathic endpoints.

Lineage B — Standalone Attention Bias Modification / eye-tracking

2024 conference evidence: SSSP poster: Attention Bias Modification Training (ABM) in non-Clinical Anxious Individuals: An Eye-Tracking Study (Eirini Psychogioudaki, Kostas Fanti).

What this establishes publicly: a Fanti-linked standalone ABM intervention line existed by 2024 and used eye-tracking in non-clinically anxious individuals.

What the public conference title does not establish:

exact comparator;
sample size;
direction/magnitude of symptom change;
anger, antisocial behavior, or psychopathic-trait outcomes.

2026 conference evidence: EFCAP lists Attention Bias Patterns and the Effects of a Combined Attention Bias Modification Training in a Community Sample. The public programme lists Eirini Psychogioudaki twice and does not list Fanti, so authorship/provenance should not be silently corrected in the atlas without an abstract or manuscript.

Atlas status: conference-only pending abstract/manuscript; likely continuation of the ABM line, but continuity is strongly-inferred, not documented.

Lineage C — Hostile Attribution Bias Modification

EFCAP 2026 contains a distinct symposium, Cognitive mechanisms underlying aggression: new insights for the development of novel intervention approaches, including:

Hostile Attribution Bias and Narcissism: A Pre–Post Intervention Study on Aggression and Emotion Regulation in a Non-Clinical Population — Antigoni Pantazi, Mariana Aime Castro Isdahl-Troye, Kostas Fanti.
A multimodal approach to address hostile attribution bias and aggressive behavior — Mariana Aimé Castro Isdahl-Troye, Andreas Chatzittofis, Kostas Fanti.
Poster: Hostile Attribution Bias Modification and Subsequent Changes in Angry Rumination: Findings from a Pilot Cognitive Intervention in Young Adults — Myrto Stylianou, Mariana Aime Castro Isdahl Troye, Kostas Fanti.

Interpretation: this is a separate cognitive-modification lineage centered on hostile attribution, aggression, emotion regulation, and angry rumination. It plausibly helps explain why the broader EAPL keynote uses cognitive-modification rather than the narrower attention modification phrasing.

Important boundary: no peer-reviewed Fanti-led outcome paper for these 2026 hostile-attribution interventions was located in the public search used for this audit. Conference titles alone are insufficient to assign effect direction, effect size, comparator adequacy, or durability.

Atlas status: conference-only and separate-lineage.

Lineage D — 2026 community 'combined ABM' presentation

The EFCAP programme separately lists Attention Bias Patterns and the Effects of a Combined Attention Bias Modification Training in a Community Sample.

The word combined is ambiguous in the public programme. It must not be assumed to mean cTBS + AMT, hostile-attribution training + ABM, or any other combination until the abstract/manuscript is located.

Atlas status: conference-only; intervention identity incomplete.

Endpoint attribution after identity audit

Claimed endpoint in 2026 keynote	Best presently identified lineage	Current evidentiary status
Attention toward positive/emotional stimuli	GENAMAT cTBS + AMT; standalone ABM line	Peer-reviewed proximal support for GENAMAT; conference-stage support for standalone ABM identity
Anxiety reduction	GENAMAT / AMT	Partial and qualified: anxiety change occurred, but active cTBS did not add superiority over sham + AMT
Anger reduction	GENAMAT project aim and/or hostile-attribution line	Not yet peer-reviewed-mapped in Fanti corpus located here
Antisocial behavior reduction	likely broader cognitive-intervention program	Not yet peer-reviewed-mapped
Psychopathic-trait reduction	possible broader cognitive-intervention program	Not yet peer-reviewed-mapped
Aggression / emotion regulation	hostile-attribution line	Conference-stage pending paper/abstract details
Angry rumination	hostile-attribution pilot	Conference-stage pending paper/abstract details

Key inference correction

The atlas must no longer represent:

computerized cognitive modification → attention + anger + antisocial behavior + anxiety + psychopathic traits

as a single study-supported edge.

It should instead represent an umbrella node:

Computerized cognitive modification (2026 keynote umbrella)

branching into:

GENAMAT AMT / cTBS+AMT
standalone ABM / eye-tracking
hostile attribution bias modification
2026 combined ABM community study — identity unresolved

Each branch must then carry its own endpoint evidence.

Search boundary

This audit used publicly accessible conference programmes, DPL/Cyprus project descriptions, the peer-reviewed 2025 GENAMAT paper, and targeted public searches for the named 2026 intervention presentations and investigators. No publicly indexed peer-reviewed Fanti-led article was located that directly substantiates the full EFCAP/EAPL composite claim of reductions in anger, antisocial behavior, and psychopathic traits from computerized attention modification.

That absence is an evidence-location finding, not proof that no unpublished, in-press, thesis, or non-indexed manuscript exists.