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Human appetitive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: a goal-directed account.
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- Effects of sleep deprivation on food-related Pavlovian-instrumental transfer: a randomized crossover experiment.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Toward a Modern View of Pavlovian Conditioning in Applied Behavior Analysis.Perspectives on behavior science · 2026Article
- Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and problematic pornography use (PPU): A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and expert-informed narrative review with suggested future directions.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Review
- Does the Habit Theory of Addictions Extend to Disordered Gambling?Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Measuring cue-elicited responding in the context of gaming and online shopping: Validity and reliability of a short Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
- Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The Continuing Challenges of Studying Parallel Behaviours in Humans and Animal Models.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Transfer from goal-directed behavior to stimulus-response habits and its modulation by acute stress in individuals with risky gaming behavior.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Pupil dilation reflects effortful action invigoration in overcoming aversive Pavlovian biases.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- High stakes slow responding, but do not help overcome Pavlovian biases in humans.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Investigating habits in humans with a symmetrical outcome-revaluation task.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effects in individuals with binge eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Enhanced Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in internet gaming disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Modifying Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer by approach avoidance training in healthy subjects: a proof of concept study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A value accumulation account of unhealthy food choices: testing the influence of outcome salience under varying time constraints.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Effects of a brief mindfulness meditation practice on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in alcohol use disorder - a pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Environmental control of social goals: using Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer to test cue-based pro-self and pro-social outcome responses.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by decreased Pavlovian influence on instrumental behavior.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) tasks assess the impact of environmental stimuli on instrumental actions. Since their initial translation from animal to human experiments, PIT tasks have provided insight into the mechanisms that underlie reward-based behaviour. This review first examines the main types of PIT tasks used in humans. We then seek to contribute to the current debate as to whether human PIT effects reflect a controlled, goal-directed process, or a more automatic, non-goal-directed mechanism. We argue that the data favour a goal-directed process. The extent to which the major theories of PIT can account for these data is then explored. We discuss a number of associative accounts of PIT as well as dual-process versions of these theories. Ultimately, however, we favour a propositional account, in which human PIT effects are suggested to be driven by both perceived outcome availability and outcome value. In the final section of the review, we present the potential objections to the propositional approach that we anticipate from advocates of associative link theories and our response to them. We also identify areas for future research.
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