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18679657

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-20
pubmed:abstractText
RATIONALE: The attentional bias for drug cues is believed to be a causal cognitive process mediating human drug seeking and relapse. OBJECTIVES, METHODS AND RESULTS: To test this claim, we trained smokers on a tobacco conditioning procedure in which the conditioned stimulus (or S+) acquired parallel control of an attentional bias (measured with an eye tracker), tobacco expectancy and instrumental tobacco-seeking behaviour. Although this correlation between measures may be regarded as consistent with the claim that the attentional bias for the S+ mediated tobacco seeking, when a secondary task was added in the test phase, the attentional bias for the S+ was abolished, yet the control of tobacco expectancy and tobacco seeking remained intact. CONCLUSIONS: This dissociation suggests that the attentional bias for drug cues is not necessary for the control that drug cues exert over drug-seeking behaviour. The question raised by these data is what function does the attentional bias serve if it does not mediate drug seeking?
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0033-3158
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
201
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
29-41
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of attentional bias in mediating human drug-seeking behaviour.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK. Lee.Hogarth@nottingham.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't