Attentional bias toward cigarette cues in active smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

While it is well documented that substance users exhibit attentional bias toward addiction-related stimuli, the exact mechanism remains unclear.

Objectives

To differentiate between distinct aspects of attentional allocation in the smoking-cue attentional bias observed in smokers.

Methods

Active smokers (AS) and non-smoking controls completed spatial cueing tasks with pairs of smoking and neutral pictorial cues to measure attentional capture, and an attentional blink task with either a smoking or neutral image appearing behind the first target (T1) to measure aspects of attention separate from capture. In addition, we tested groups of sports enthusiasts, and non-enthusiasts in corresponding tasks replacing smoking images with sports-related images to address

SUBMITTER: Chanon VW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2967198 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature