Trial reportExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2013
Attentional bias for nondrug reward is magnified in addiction.
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- Neural correlates of altered reward-driven attention in chronic pain and opioid use.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Trichotomy revisited: A monolithic theory of attentional control.Vision research · 2024Article
- Selection history and the strategic control of attention.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2024Article
- Rethinking Distraction.Visual cognition · 2024Article
- From learned value to sustained bias: how reward conditioning changes attentional priority.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Value-modulated attentional capture is augmented by win-related sensory cues.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Learned cognitive control counteracts value-driven attentional capture.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Naltrexone engages a brain reward network in the presence of reward-predictive distractor stimuli in males.Addiction neuroscience · 2023Article
- The propensity to sign-track is associated with externalizing behavior and distinct patterns of reward-related brain activation in youth.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The complexity of cortical folding is reduced in chronic cocaine users.Addiction biology · 2023Article
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- An fMRI analysis of verbal and non-verbal working memory in people with a past history of opioid dependence.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Sign-tracking modulates reward-related neural activation to reward cues, but not reward feedback.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Testing reward-cue attentional salience: Attainment and dynamic changes.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Attentional biases for drug-related stimuli play a prominent role in addiction, predicting treatment outcomes. Attentional biases also develop for stimuli that have been paired with nondrug rewards in adults without a history of addiction, the magnitude of which is predicted by visual working-memory capacity and impulsiveness. We tested the hypothesis that addiction is associated with an increased attentional bias for nondrug (monetary) reward relative to that of healthy controls, and that this bias is related to working-memory impairments and increased impulsiveness. Seventeen patients receiving methadone-maintenance treatment for opioid dependence and 17 healthy controls participated. Impulsiveness was measured using the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11; Patton, Stanford, & Barratt, 1995), visual working-memory capacity was measured as the ability to recognize briefly presented color stimuli, and attentional bias was measured as the magnitude of response time slowing caused by irrelevant but previously reward-associated distractors in a visual-search task. The results showed that attention was biased toward the distractors across all participants, replicating previous findings. It is important to note, this bias was significantly greater in the patients than in the controls and was negatively correlated with visual working-memory capacity. Patients were also significantly more impulsive than controls as a group. Our findings demonstrate that patients in treatment for addiction experience greater difficulty ignoring stimuli associated with nondrug reward. This nonspecific reward-related bias could mediate the distracting quality of drug-related stimuli previously observed in addiction.
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