ReviewDrug and alcohol dependence2016
What is abnormal about addiction-related attentional biases?
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- Attentional Bias in Exercise Dependence: An ERP Study of Enhanced Early Attentional Allocation to Exercise Cues.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Examining the Reliability and Utility of MouseView.js as a Method to Measure Attentional Bias for Cannabis Use.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2026Article
- The potential of event-related beta oscillations as biomarkers for neuromodulatory treatment efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Dual Role of LH-GABA Neurons in Encoding Alcohol Reward and Aversive Memories.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Reward history alters priority map based on spatial relationship, but not absolute location.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of Proactive Adaptation in a Rewarded Response Inhibition Task: Executive, Motor, or Attentional Effects?Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Exploring the Utility of a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cannabis Cue-Reactivity Paradigm in Treatment-Seeking Adults With Cannabis Use Disorder.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Article
- Approach-Bias Retraining and Other Training Interventions as Add-On in the Treatment of AUD Patients.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Decoding and modifying dynamic attentional bias in gaming disorder.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Attentional bias to social media stimuli is moderated by fear of missing out among problematic social media users.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Modeling impaired insight after drug use in rodents.Behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Trichotomy revisited: A monolithic theory of attentional control.Vision research · 2024Article
- Intrinsic Functional Connectivity between the Anterior Insular and Retrosplenial Cortex as a Moderator and Consequence of Cocaine Self-Administration in Rats.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Rethinking Distraction.Visual cognition · 2024Article
- Value-modulated attentional capture is augmented by win-related sensory cues.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Cross-modal generalization of value-based attentional priority.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Attentional Bias to Methamphetamine Cues and Its Association With EEG-Derived Functional Brain Network Topology.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe phenotype of addiction includes prominent attentional biases for drug cues, which play a role in motivating drug-seeking behavior and contribute to relapse. In a separate line of research, arbitrary stimuli have been shown to automatically capture attention when previously associated with reward in non-clinical samples. METHODS AND
resultsHere, I argue that these two attentional biases reflect the same cognitive process. I outline five characteristics that exemplify attentional biases for drug cues: resistant to conflicting goals, robust to extinction, linked to dorsal striatal dopamine and to biases in approach behavior, and can distinguish between individuals with and without a history of drug dependence. I then go on to describe how attentional biases for arbitrary reward-associated stimuli share all of these features, and conclude by arguing that the attentional components of addiction reflect a normal cognitive process that promotes reward-seeking behavior.
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