ArticleExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2015
The motivational salience of cigarette-related stimuli among former, never, and current smokers.
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- Topiramate decreases the salience of motivationally relevant visual cues among smokers with alcohol use disorder.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Trial
- Pharmacological intervention and abstinence in smokers undergoing cessation treatment: A psychophysiological study.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2018Trial
- Individual differences in brain responses to cigarette-related cues and pleasant stimuli in young smokers.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Trial
- Dissociating moral identity from neural markers of the late positive potential in emotional attention to smoking and non-smoking stimuli.AIMS neuroscience · 2026Article
- Beneath the Surface of Self-Reports: Dissecting Subjective and Neural Responses to Age-Specific Visual Stimuli.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Effect of parental smoking behavior and motives on preadolescents' neural attention to smoking-related cues.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Neuroaffective reactivity profiles are associated with vulnerability to e-cigarette use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Acute sensitization of the P3 event-related potential response to beverage images and the risk for alcohol use disorder.Addiction neuroscience · 2022Article
- Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the P3 event-related potential (ERP) elicited by alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage pictures.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
- Toward Precision Medicine for Smoking Cessation: Developing a Neuroimaging-Based Classification Algorithm to Identify Smokers at Higher Risk for Relapse.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- The Late Positive Potentials Evoked by Cigarette-Related and Emotional Images Show no Gender Differences in Smokers.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Brain Responses to Cigarette-Related and Emotional Images in Smokers During Smoking Cessation: No Effect of Varenicline or Bupropion on the Late Positive Potential.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Article
- Cigarette cues capture attention of smokers and never-smokers, but for different reasons.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
- Beyond Cue Reactivity: Non-Drug-Related Motivationally Relevant Stimuli Are Necessary to Understand Reactivity to Drug-Related Cues.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Review
- P3 event-related potential reactivity to smoking cues: Relations with craving, tobacco dependence, and alcohol sensitivity in young adult smokers.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Article
- Attentional bias to smoking and other motivationally relevant cues is affected by nicotine exposure and dose expectancy.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2016Article
- Conditioned cortical reactivity to cues predicting cigarette-related or pleasant images.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2016Article
- The trial-by-trial fluctuations in primary motor cortex excitability during attentional bias among smokers: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
While smokers are known to find smoking-related stimuli motivationally salient, the extent to which former smokers do so is largely unknown. In this study, we collected event-related potential (ERP) data from former and never smokers and compared them to a sample of current smokers interested in quitting who completed the same ERP paradigm prior to smoking cessation treatment. All participants (n = 180) attended 1 laboratory session where we recorded dense-array ERPs in response to cigarette-related, pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures and where we collected valence and arousal ratings of the pictures. We identified 3 spatial and temporal regions of interest, corresponding to the P1 (120-132 ms), early posterior negativity (EPN; 244-316 ms), and late positive potential (LPP; 384-800 ms) ERP components. We found that all participants produced larger P1 responses to cigarette-related pictures compared to the other picture categories. With the EPN component, we found that, similar to pleasant and unpleasant pictures, cigarette-related pictures attracted early attentional resources, regardless of smoking status. Both former and never smokers produced reduced LPP responses to cigarette-related and pleasant pictures compared to current smokers. Current smokers rated the cigarette-related pictures as being more pleasant and arousing than the former and never smokers. The LPP and picture-rating results suggest that former smokers, like never smokers, do not find cigarette-related stimuli to be as motivationally salient as current smokers.
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