ArticlePsychopharmacology2010
The associative basis of cue-elicited drug taking in humans.
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- Human appetitive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: a goal-directed account.Psychological research · 2021Review
- Does acute stress influence the Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer effect? Implications for substance use disorders.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Subliminal determinants of cue-guided choice.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Effects of dose on acquisition and persistence of a new response for a remifentanil-associated stimulus.Behavioural pharmacology · 2020Article
- Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Individual differences in working memory capacity and cue-guided behavior in humans.Scientific reports · 2019Observational
- Combined Smoking Cues Enhance Reactivity and Predict Immediate Subsequent Smoking.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Article
- Tension reduction and affect regulation: An examination of mood indices on drinking and non-drinking days among university student drinkers.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2018Article
- The role of glutamate signaling in incentive salience: second-by-second glutamate recordings in awake Sprague-Dawley rats.Journal of neurochemistry · 2018Article
- Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2017Review
- Commentary: Monetary, Food, and Social Rewards Induce Similar Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer Effects.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- Triggering Avoidance: Dissociable Influences of Aversive Pavlovian Conditioned Stimuli on Human Instrumental Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- Gender-related Differences in Food Craving and Obesity.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2016Review
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Abstract
rationaleDrug cues play an important role in motivating human drug taking, lapse and relapse, but the psychological basis of this effect has not been fully specified.
methodTo clarify these mechanisms, the study measured the extent to which pictorial and conditioned tobacco cues enhanced smoking topography in an ad libitum smoking session simultaneously with cue effects on subjective craving, pleasure and anxiety.
resultsBoth cue types increased the number of puffs consumed and craving, but pleasure and anxiety responses were dissociated across cue type. Moreover, cue effects on puff number correlated with effects on craving but not pleasure or anxiety. Finally, whereas overall puff number and craving declined across the two blocks of consumption, consistent with burgeoning satiety, cue enhancement of puff number and craving were both unaffected by satiety.
conclusionsOverall, the data suggest that cue-elicited drug taking in humans is mediated by an expectancy-based associative learning architecture, which paradoxically is autonomous of the current incentive value of the drug.
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