Goal-driven attentional capture by appetitive and aversive smoking-related cues in nicotine-dependent smokers

Attentional theories of Pavlovian associative learning suggest that drug-related cues, including smoking-related cues, command the focus of selective attention (Mackintosh, 1975; Pearce and Hall, 1980). Several studies have provided evidence that smoking-related cues attract attention. For instance, smokers but not non-smokers show slower detection latencies for targets that appear in a different location from a smoking image compared to a control image (e.g., Mogg et al., 2003; Field et al., 2004; 2008; Ehrman et al.
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research