Contribution of alcohol- and cigarette-related cues to concurrent reinforcer choice in humans.

ABSTRACT: Drug-related cues have been extensively studied for their contributions to decision-making processes involving drug consumption. Less studied is how drug-related stimuli may impact decisions involving outcomes not directly related to substance use. Studies using concurrent choice tasks have demonstrated that cocaine and cannabis cues result in robust and selective biases for monetary reinforcers contiguous with those cues. The purpose of this study was to provide a conceptual replication of these findings with alcohol and cigarettes. Participants recruited using crowdsourcing completed a cued concurrent choice task involving presentation of two cues (one drug and one neutral) followed by concurrent monetary offers below each image. Alcohol (Experiment 1; N = 103) and cigarette (Experiment

SUBMITTER: Strickland JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283006 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature