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

Brown, Chris Robert Harrison; Forster, Sophie; Duka, Theodora

doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.06.011

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“…As well as the findings for early attention‐related components, our behavioral measure of sustained attention, IRV, was also associated with alcohol use. Given that top‐down, goal‐driven attentional biases for alcohol have been observed in social drinkers, it would be useful to further examine how goal‐directed and involuntary aspects of attention are related to alcohol‐outcomes.…”

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Inhibitory‐control event‐related potentials correlate with individual differences in alcohol use

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Impulsivity is a multidimensional construct that is related to different aspects of alcohol use, abuse, and dependence. Inhibitory control, one facet of impulsivity, can be assayed using the stop-signal task (SST) and quantified behaviorally via the stopsignal reaction time (SSRT) and electrophysiologically using event-related potentials (ERPs). Research on the relationship between alcohol use and SSRTs, and between alcohol use and inhibitory-control ERPs, is mixed. Here, adult alcohol users (n = 79), with a wide range of scores on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), completed the SST under electroencephalography (EEG) (70% of participants had AUDIT total scores greater than or equal to 8). Other measures, including demographic, self-report, and task-based measures of impulsivity, personality, and psychological factors, were also recorded. A machine-learning method with penalized linear regression was used to correlate individual differences in alcohol use with impulsivity measures. Four separate models were tested, with out-of-sample validation used to quantify performance. ERPs alone statistically predicted alcohol use (cross-validated r = 0.28), with both early and late ERP components contributing to the model (larger N2, but smaller P3, amplitude). Behavioral data from a wide range of impulsivity measures were also associated with alcohol use (r = 0.37). SSRT was a relatively weak statistical predictor, whereas the Stroop interference effect was relatively strong. The addition of nonimpulsivity behavioral measures did not improve the correlation (r = 0.34) and was similar when ERPs were combined with non-ERP data (r = 0.29).These findings show that inhibitory control ERPs are robustly correlated individual differences in alcohol use.

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Inhibitory‐control event‐related potentials correlate with individual differences in alcohol use

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“…Indeed, the idea that attentional biases towards threat may be due to an intentional vigilance has been raised in early models of anxiety (e.g., Wells & Matthews, 1994). We note, however, that our previous demonstrations of goal-driven capture by motivationally relevant stimuli have been limited to single conceptual categories (e.g., threatening animals or negative smoking images; Brown et al, 2019;Brown, Forster, et al, 2018b). One question which remains, therefore, is whether or not goal-driven attentional capture can be elicited in response to a general affective goal (e.g., threat detection), and generalize across multiple subcategories of threat (e.g., threatening objects, threat-related vehicles, threat-related faces).…”

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“…In Experiment 2, participants now had to make a present/ absent judgment which would have a lower threshold to correctly respond to the target (Shang & Bishop, 2000). This response format has been previously used in other variants of our task to demonstrate goal-driven capture (e.g., Brown, Duka, et al, 2018a;Brown, Forster, et al, 2018b).…”

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“…Our stopping rule was based on the maximum number of participants that could be recruited within one week. To estimate power to detect goaldriven effects, we identified five papers in which taskirrelevant categorical distractors captured attention in an RSVP task due to congruence with the search goal (Brown et al, 2019;Brown, Duka, et al, 2018a;Brown, Forster, et al, 2018b;Giammarco et al, 2016;Wyble et al, 2013). The average effect size for the difference between target identification/detection accuracy when a distractor category overlapped with the search goal versus when it was incongruent, was d z = 1.04 (SD = .52; k = 19).…”

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“…Adapting the contingent capture paradigm of Wyble et al (2013), we have demonstrated that involuntary attentional capture effects for certain categories 1 of motivationally relevant stimuli, such as threatening animals, emotional faces, alcohol, and rewarding and aversive smoking cues can be experimentally induced when participants are asked to adopt a search goal for these categories. Such findings raise the possibility that the phenomenon of involuntary attentional capture by threat might conceivably reflect a goal-driven mechanism (Brown, Berggren, & Forster, 2019;Brown, Duka, & Forster, 2018a;Brown, Forster, & Duka, 2018b).…”

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Not looking for any trouble? Purely affective attentional settings do not induce goal-driven attentional capture

Brown

Berggren

Forster

2019

Atten Percept Psychophys

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It is well established that directing goal-driven attention to a particular stimulus property (e.g., red), or a conceptual category (e.g., toys) can induce powerful involuntary capture by goal-matching stimuli. Here, we tested whether broad affective search goals (e.g., for anything threat-related) could similarly induce a generalized capture to an entire matching affective category. Across four experiments, participants were instructed to search for threat-related images in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) stream, while ignoring threat-related distractors presented in task-irrelevant locations. Across these experiments we found no evidence of goal-driven attentional capture by threat distractors when participants adopted a general 'threat detection' goal encompassing multiple subcategories of threat (Experiments 1a, 1b). This was true even when there was partial overlap between the threat distractors and the search goal (i.e., subset of the targets matched the distractor; Experiment 2). However, when participants adopted a more specific goal for a single subcategory of threat (e.g., fearful faces), robust goal-driven capture occurred by distractors matching this subcategory (Experiment 3). These findings suggest that while affective criteria can be used in the guidance of attention, attentional settings based on affective properties alone may not induce goal-driven attentional capture. We discuss implications for recent goal-driven accounts of affective attentional biases.

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A psychological-systems goal-theory model of alcohol consumption and treatment

Klinger

2021

The Handbook of Alcohol Use

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

Abstract: The results support a goal-driven mechanism underpinning involuntary attentional capture by smoking cues. These findings can be used to inform models of addiction and attention, and the display of health warnings.

Cited by 6 publications

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Inhibitory‐control event‐related potentials correlate with individual differences in alcohol use

Inhibitory‐control event‐related potentials correlate with individual differences in alcohol use

Not looking for any trouble? Purely affective attentional settings do not induce goal-driven attentional capture

A psychological-systems goal-theory model of alcohol consumption and treatment

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