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Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images.

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Oliver, JA; Jentink, KG; Drobes, DJ; Evans, DE
Published in: Health Psychol
August 2016

OBJECTIVE: There has been growing interest in the role that implicit processing of drug cues can play in motivating drug use behavior. However, the extent to which drug cue processing biases relate to the processing biases exhibited to other types of evocative stimuli is largely unknown. The goal of the present study was to determine how the implicit cognitive processing of smoking cues relates to the processing of affective cues using a novel paradigm. METHOD: Smokers (n = 50) and nonsmokers (n = 38) completed a picture-viewing task, in which participants were presented with a series of smoking, pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral images while engaging in a distractor task designed to direct controlled resources away from conscious processing of image content. Electroencephalogram recordings were obtained throughout the task for extraction of event-related potentials (ERPs). RESULTS: Smokers exhibited differential processing of smoking cues across 3 different ERP indices compared with nonsmokers. Comparable effects were found for pleasant cues on 2 of these indices. Late cognitive processing of smoking and pleasant cues was associated with nicotine dependence and cigarette use. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that cognitive biases may extend across classes of stimuli among smokers. This raises important questions about the fundamental meaning of cognitive biases, and suggests the need to consider generalized cognitive biases in theories of drug use behavior and interventions based on cognitive bias modification. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Health Psychol

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1930-7810

Publication Date

August 2016

Volume

35

Issue

8

Start / End Page

866 / 869

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Tobacco Use Disorder
  • Smoking
  • Public Health
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Motivation
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Evoked Potentials
 

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Oliver, J. A., Jentink, K. G., Drobes, D. J., & Evans, D. E. (2016). Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images. Health Psychol, 35(8), 866–869. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000350
Oliver, Jason A., Kade G. Jentink, David J. Drobes, and David E. Evans. “Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images.Health Psychol 35, no. 8 (August 2016): 866–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000350.
Oliver JA, Jentink KG, Drobes DJ, Evans DE. Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images. Health Psychol. 2016 Aug;35(8):866–9.
Oliver, Jason A., et al. “Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images.Health Psychol, vol. 35, no. 8, Aug. 2016, pp. 866–69. Pubmed, doi:10.1037/hea0000350.
Oliver JA, Jentink KG, Drobes DJ, Evans DE. Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images. Health Psychol. 2016 Aug;35(8):866–869.

Published In

Health Psychol

DOI

EISSN

1930-7810

Publication Date

August 2016

Volume

35

Issue

8

Start / End Page

866 / 869

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Tobacco Use Disorder
  • Smoking
  • Public Health
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Motivation
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Evoked Potentials