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19186931

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-2-3
pubmed:abstractText
It is commonly thought that attentional bias for drug cues plays an important role in motivating human drug-seeking behavior. To assess this claim, two groups of smokers were trained in a discrimination task in which a tobacco-seeking response was rewarded only in the presence of 1 particular stimulus (the S+). The key manipulation was that whereas 1 group could control the duration of S+ presentation, for the second group, this duration was fixed. The results showed that the fixed-duration group acquired a sustained attentional bias to the S+ over training, indexed by greater dwell time and fixation count, which emerged in parallel with the control exerted by the S+ over tobacco-seeking behavior. By contrast, the controllable-duration group acquired no sustained attentional bias for S+ and instead used efficient detection of the S+ to achieve a comparable level of control over tobacco seeking. These data suggest that detection and sustained attention to drug cues have dissociable roles in enabling drug cues to motivate drug-seeking behavior, which has implications for attentional retraining as a treatment for addiction.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1064-1297
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21-30
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection versus sustained attention to drug cues have dissociable roles in mediating drug seeking behavior.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, England. lee.hogarth@nottingham.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't