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

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 simultaneo...

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Autores principales: Pennington, Charlotte R., Qureshi, Adam W., Monk, Rebecca L., Greenwood, Katie, Heim, Derek
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6892770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31286155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05313-0
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author Pennington, Charlotte R.
Qureshi, Adam W.
Monk, Rebecca L.
Greenwood, Katie
Heim, Derek
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description 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 array of matching and non-matching distractors. Both behavioural response times and eye-movement dwell time were measured. RESULTS: Social drinkers were significantly quicker to detect alcoholic and non-alcoholic appetitive targets relative to non-appetitive targets in an array of matching and mismatching distractors. Similarly, proportional dwell time was lower for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic appetitive distractors relative to non-appetitive distractors, suggesting that appetitive targets were relatively easier to detect. CONCLUSIONS: Social drinkers may exhibit generalised attentional bias towards alcoholic and non-alcoholic appetitive cues. This adds to emergent research suggesting that the mechanisms driving these individual’s attention towards alcoholic cues might ‘spill over’ to other appetitive cues, possibly due to associative learning. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00213-019-05313-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-68927702019-12-19 Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task Pennington, Charlotte R. Qureshi, Adam W. Monk, Rebecca L. Greenwood, Katie Heim, Derek Psychopharmacology (Berl) Original Investigation 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 array of matching and non-matching distractors. Both behavioural response times and eye-movement dwell time were measured. RESULTS: Social drinkers were significantly quicker to detect alcoholic and non-alcoholic appetitive targets relative to non-appetitive targets in an array of matching and mismatching distractors. Similarly, proportional dwell time was lower for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic appetitive distractors relative to non-appetitive distractors, suggesting that appetitive targets were relatively easier to detect. CONCLUSIONS: Social drinkers may exhibit generalised attentional bias towards alcoholic and non-alcoholic appetitive cues. This adds to emergent research suggesting that the mechanisms driving these individual’s attention towards alcoholic cues might ‘spill over’ to other appetitive cues, possibly due to associative learning. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00213-019-05313-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-07-08 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6892770/ /pubmed/31286155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05313-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Pennington, Charlotte R.
Qureshi, Adam W.
Monk, Rebecca L.
Greenwood, Katie
Heim, Derek
Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
title Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
title_full Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
title_fullStr Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
title_full_unstemmed Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
title_short Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
title_sort beer? over here! examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task
topic Original Investigation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6892770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31286155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05313-0
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