Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Experimental tasks that demonstrate alcohol-related attentional bias typically expose participants to single-stimulus targets (e.g. addiction Stroop, visual probe, anti-saccade task), which may not correspond fully with real-world contexts where alcoholic and non-alcoholic cues simultaneously compete for attention. Moreover, alcoholic stimuli are rarely matched to other appetitive non-alcoholic stimuli.

Objectives

To address these limitations by utilising a conjunction search eye-tracking task and matched stimuli to examine alcohol-related attentional bias.

Methods

Thirty social drinkers (Mage = 19.87, SD = 1.74) were asked to detect whether alcoholic (beer), non-alcoholic (water) or non-appetitive (detergent) targets were present or absent amongst a visual

SUBMITTER: Pennington CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892770 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature