Transfer of incentive salience from a first-order alcohol cue to a novel second-order alcohol cue among individuals at risk for alcohol use disorder: electrophysiological evidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

In susceptible individuals, cues associated with drug use are theorized to take on incentive-motivational properties, including the ability to reinforce higher-order, drug-related associative learning. This study aimed to test this prediction among people varying in risk for alcohol use disorder.

Design, setting and participants

Repeated-measures experiment with a measured individual difference variable at a University psychology laboratory in Missouri, USA. One hundred and six young adults (96 contributed complete data) were pre-selected to represent the upper and lower quartiles of self-reported sensitivity to alcohol's acute effects.

Measurements

Participants completed a second-order Pavlovian conditioning paradigm in which an initially neutral

SUBMITTER: Fleming KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8172423 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature