ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2025
Love at first glance: Imbalanced processing to gaming and natural rewards in internet gaming disorder.
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- Disrupted Sensory-Motor Network Integrity in Excessive Online Gaming: Insight From Multimodal Morphometric Mapping.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Neurophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Gambling Cues in Individuals with Internet Gambling Disorder: A VR-EEG-GSR Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Dissociated in Anticipation, Common in Feedback: Neuroelectrophysiological Mechanisms of Social-Motivational Processing in Bivalent Evaluation Fears.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- From "player" to "viewer": a survey on the willingness of video game players to alter their game consumption behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- When music matters: how music app use buffers the relationship between boredom proneness, loneliness and Internet Gaming Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Differential P3 reactivity to pornographic versus natural rewards as a neural marker of reward imbalance in problematic pornography use in young heterosexual men.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Background and aims: Individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) exhibit a heightened reward responsiveness to gaming-related rewards, alongside a diminished response to natural rewards. However, the temporal dynamics and neural correlates underlying this imbalanced processing remain unclear. Methods: This electrophysiological study investigated the neural responses associated with reward processing and their relationship to self-reported reward responsiveness. Using an Incentive Delay Task, we compared neural responses to gaming and monetary rewards between 25 IGD participants and 32 recreational game users (RGUs). Self-reported reward responsiveness was assessed with the Behavioral Approach/Inhibition System (BAS/BIS) scales. Results: The IGD group scored higher on the BAS-responsiveness subscale. Correlation analysis indicated that enhanced BAS-responsiveness was associated with automatic attention (N1) to gaming feedback, but not with feedback monitoring (FRN) or emotional arousal (LPP). No such correlation was found in the monetary condition. Following initial automatic attention, the IGD group demonstrated selective feedback monitoring (FRN) for gaming rewards while neglecting monetary feedback. Discussion and Conclusions: Gaming stimuli automatically capture the attention of individuals with IGD, triggering less top-down monitoring of other potential positive feedback. These findings suggest that attentional bias toward game-related stimuli serves as a sensitive biological marker of heightened reward responsiveness in individuals with IGD.
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