ArticlePloS one2018
The specificity of attentional biases by type of gambling: An eye-tracking study.
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Double Blind 12-week Controlled Experiment With Two Groups of Pathological Gamblers, One Taking Active Drug (Naltrexone) and the Other Receiving Placebo.Patters Patterns of Visual Tracking Will be Acessed on Both Groups Prior and During Tratment in Order to Predict Treatment Response
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Eye-Tracking Studies of Gambling-Related Attentional Biases.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Pooled it
- Eye Tracking Studies Exploring Cognitive and Affective Processes among Alcohol Drinkers: a Systematic Review and Perspectives.Neuropsychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Long-term efficacy of an optimized online gambling self-exclusion procedure with extended suspension of commercial solicitations: a randomized controlled trial.Harm reduction journal · 2025Trial
- How We Lost 90% of Participants on a Bad Bet: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial on Cognitive Bias Modification in Problem Gamblers.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Trial
- Noradrenergic regulation of cue-guided decision making and impulsivity is doubly dissociable across frontal brain regions.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Attentional disengagement, craving, and mentalizing: a preliminary experimental study among older-aged male gamblers.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Differences between Gamblers and Non-Gamblers on Sports Betting Websites.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
- Affective impulsivity moderates the relationship between disordered gambling severity and attentional bias in electronic gaming machine (EGM) players.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Do pupillary responses during authentic slot machine use reflect arousal or screen luminance fluctuations? A proof-of-concept study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Impulsivity, Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Distortions and Attentional Bias in a Spanish Sample of Gambling Disorder Patients: Comparison between Online and Land-Based Gambling.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Contribution of Eye-Tracking to Study Cognitive Impairments Among Clinical Populations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- A Scoping Review of Cognitive Bias in Internet Addiction and Internet Gaming Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Cued for risk: Evidence for an incentive sensitization framework to explain the interplay between stress and anxiety, substance abuse, and reward uncertainty in disordered gambling behavior.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Review
- A Smartphone Attention Bias Intervention for Individuals With Addictive Disorders: Protocol for a Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
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Abstract
A growing body of research indicates that gamblers develop an attentional bias for gambling-related stimuli. Compared to research on substance use, however, few studies have examined attentional biases in gamblers using eye-gaze tracking, which has many advantages over other measures of attention. In addition, previous studies of attentional biases in gamblers have not directly matched type of gambler with personally-relevant gambling cues. The present study investigated the specificity of attentional biases for individual types of gambling using an eye-gaze tracking paradigm. Three groups of participants (poker players, video lottery terminal/slot machine players, and non-gambling controls) took part in one test session in which they viewed 25 sets of four images (poker, VLTs/slot machines, bingo, and board games). Participants' eye fixations were recorded throughout each 8-second presentation of the four images. The results indicated that, as predicted, the two gambling groups preferentially attended to their primary form of gambling, whereas control participants attended to board games more than gambling images. The findings have clinical implications for the treatment of individuals with gambling disorder. Understanding the importance of personally-salient gambling cues will inform the development of effective attentional bias modification treatments for problem gamblers.
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