Attentional bias to alcohol stimuli predicts elevated cue-induced craving in young adult social drinkers

Manchery, Linda; Yarmush, Devorah E.; Luehring-Jones, Peter; Erblich, Joel

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.01.035

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“…In a meta-analysis conducted by Field et al (2009), the authors found a positive correlation between ABs toward alcohol and craving for alcohol. A recent study (Manchery et al, 2017) also found a significant relationship between AB and cue-induced alcohol craving, suggesting that heightened attention to alcohol cues may be associated with increased craving responses to these cues. Taken together, this research raises the possibility that ABM training may be able to reduce cue-induced cravings for alcohol via a reduction in AB toward alcohol.…”

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“…Participants were healthy young adult drinkers (n=60) recruited from a larger pool of participants (N=123) who had already completed a two-visit study of alcohol craving at a large, urban university in the Northeastern United States (for partial results of the larger study, see Luehring-Jones et al, 2016; Manchery et al, 2017; Yarmush et al, 2016). The first 60 participants of the larger study were randomized to the current study.…”

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“…Under laboratory conditions, exposure to alcohol-related cues have been shown to elicit significant craving responses (Manchery et al, 2017; Rankin et al, 1979) which may be important predictors of drinking decisions (Carter and Tiffany, 1999; Drummond, 2000). Differences in craving following laboratory cue exposures may serve as a valuable index of the real-world effectiveness of ABM training.…”

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A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers

Luehring-Jones

Louis

Dennis-Tiwary

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background Attentional bias modification (ABM) techniques for reducing problematic alcohol consumption hold promise as highly-accessible and cost-effective treatment approaches. A growing body of literature has examined ABM as a potentially efficacious intervention for reducing drinking and drinking-related cognitions in alcohol-dependent individuals as well as those at-risk of developing problem drinking habits. Methods The present study tested the effectiveness of a single session of visual probe-based ABM training in a cohort of 60 non-treatment-seeking young adult drinkers, with a focus on examining mechanisms underlying training efficacy. Participants were randomly assigned to a single session of active ABM training or a sham training condition in a laboratory setting. Measures of implicit drinking-related cognitions (alcohol Stroop and an Implicit Association Test) and attentional bias (alcohol visual probe) were administered, and subjective alcohol craving was reported in response to in-vivo alcohol cues. Results Results showed that active ABM training, relative to sham, resulted in significant differences in measures of implicit alcohol-related cognition, alcohol-related attentional bias, and self-reports of alcohol craving. Mediation analysis showed that reductions in craving were fully mediated by ABM-related reductions in alcohol-Stroop interference scores, suggesting a previously undocumented relationship between the two measures. Conclusion Results document the efficacy of brief ABM to reduce both implicit and explicit processes related to drinking, and highlight the potential intervention-relevance of alcohol-related implicit cognitions in social drinkers.

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A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers

Luehring-Jones

Louis

Dennis-Tiwary

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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“…Through the process of conditioning, alcohol-related cues are associated with the perceived positive expectancies of drinking and become increasingly attractive (c.f., Jones, Hogarth, Christiansen, Rose, Martinovic, & Field, 2012;Tuenissen, Spijkerman, Schoenmakers, Vohs, & Engels, 2012). Resultantly, attention is drawn to alcohol-related cues (Tuenissen et al, 2012) which, in turn, may lead to an increase in craving (Manchery, Yarmush, Luehring-Jones, & Erblich., 2017) and consumption (e.g., Weafer & Fillmore, 2013). Inhibition is proposed to control the strength of alcohol-related attentional biases (Field & Cox 2008) by moderating processes such as automatic approach tendencies (e.g., Wiers et al, 2007), as well as implicit associations (e.g., Houben & Wiers, 2009).…”

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Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control

Qureshi¹,

Monk²,

Pennington³

et al. 2020

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Introduction: Representing a more immersive testing environment, the current study exposed individuals to both alcohol-related visual and auditory cues to assess their respective impact on alcohol-related inhibitory control. It examined further whether individual variation in alcohol consumption and trait effortful control may predict inhibitory control performance. Method: Twenty-five U.K. university students (Mage = 23.08, SD = 8.26) completed an anti-saccade eye-tracking task and were instructed to look towards (pro) or directly away (anti) from alcohol-related and neutral visual stimuli. Short alcohol-related sound cues (bar audio) were played on 50% of trials and were compared with responses where no sounds were played. Results: Findings indicate that participants launched more incorrect saccades towards alcohol-related visual stimuli on anti-saccade trials, and responded quicker to alcohol on pro-saccade trials. Alcohol-related audio cues reduced latencies for both pro- and anti-saccade trials and reduced anti-saccade error rates to alcohol-related visual stimuli. Controlling for trait effortful control and problem alcohol consumption removed these effects. Conclusion: These findings suggest that alcohol-related visual cues may be associated with reduced inhibitory control, evidenced by increased errors and faster response latencies. The presentation of alcohol-related auditory cues, however, appears to enhance performance accuracy. It is postulated that auditory cues may re-contextualise visual stimuli into a more familiar setting that reduces their saliency and lessens their attentional pull.

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“…Mediante el proceso de condicionamiento, los estímulos relacionados con el alcohol se asocian con expectativas positivas percibidas del consumo de alcohol y de ganar en atractivo (c.f., Jones, Hogarth, Christiansen, Rose, Martinovic, y Field, 2012;Teunissen, Spijkerman, Schoenmakers, Vohs, y Engels, 2012). Como resultado, la atención se va hacia los estímulos relacionados con el alcohol (Tuenissen et al, 2012) que, a su vez, pueden llevar a un aumento del craving (Manchery, Yarmush, Luehring-Jones, y Erblich., 2017) y el consumo (e.g., Weafer y Fillmore, 2013). La inhibición se propone para controlar la fuerza de los sesgos de atención relacionados con el alcohol (Field y Cox 2008) mediante la moderación de procesos, tales como las tendencias automáticas al acercamiento (e.g., Wiers et al, 2007) tanto como sus asociaciones implícitas (e.g., Houben y ).…”

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Los estímulos contextuales visuales y auditivos impactan de manera diferenciada el control inhibitorio relacionado con el alcohol

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Representing a more immersive testing environment, the current study exposed individuals to both alcohol-related visual and auditory cues to assess their respective impact on alcohol-related inhibitory control. It examined further whether individual variation in alcohol consumption and trait effortful control may predict inhibitory control performance. Twenty-five U.K. university students (Mage = 23.08, SD = 8.26) completed an anti-saccade eye-tracking task and were instructed to look towards (pro) or directly away (anti) from alcohol-related and neutral visual stimuli. Short alcohol-related sound cues (bar audio) were played on 50% of trials and were compared with responses where no sounds were played. Findings indicate that participants launched more incorrect saccades towards alcohol-related visual stimuli on antisaccade trials, and responded quicker to alcohol on pro-saccade trials.Alcohol-related audio cues reduced latencies for both pro-and antisaccade trials and reduced anti-saccade error rates to alcohol-related visual stimuli. Controlling for trait effortful control and problem alcohol consumption removed these effects. These findings suggest that alcohol-related visual cues may be associated with reduced inhibitory control, evidenced by increased errors and faster response latencies. The presentation of alcohol-related auditory cues, however, appears to enhance performance accuracy. It is postulated that auditory cues may re-contextualise visual stimuli into a more familiar setting that reduces their saliency and lessens their attentional pull.

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Attentional bias to alcohol stimuli predicts elevated cue-induced craving in young adult social drinkers

Cited by 43 publications

References 15 publications

A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers

A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers

Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control

Los estímulos contextuales visuales y auditivos impactan de manera diferenciada el control inhibitorio relacionado con el alcohol

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