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Hogarth, Lee, Dickinson, Anthony, Hutton, Samuel, Elbers, Nieke and Duka, Dora (2006) Drug expectancy is necessary for stimulus control of human attention, instrumental drug-seeking behaviour and subjective pleasure. Psychopharmacology, 185 (4). pp. 495-504.
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Background: It has been suggested that drugpaired stimuli (S+) control addictive behaviour by eliciting an explicit mental representation or expectation of drug availability. Aims: The aim of the present study was to test this hypothesis by determining whether the behavioural control exerted by a tobacco-paired S+ in human smokers would depend upon the S+ eliciting an explicit expectation of tobacco. Design: In each trial, human smokers (n=16) were presented with stimuli for which attention was measured with an eyetracker. Participants then reported their cigarette reward expectancy before performing, or not, an instrumental tobacco-seeking response that was rewarded with cigarette gains if the S+ had been presented or punished with cigarette losses if the S- had been presented. Following training, participants rated the pleasantness of stimuli. Results: The S+ only brought about conditioned behaviour in an aware group (those who expected the cigarette reward outcome when presented with the S+). This aware group allocated attention to the S+, performed the instrumental tobacco-seeking response selectively in the presence of the S+ and rated the S+ as pleasant. No conditioned behaviour was seen in the unaware group (those who did not expect the cigarette reward outcome in the presence of the S+). Conclusions: Drug-paired stimuli control selective attention, instrumental drug-seeking behaviour and positive emotional state by eliciting an explicit expectation of drug availability.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools and Departments: | School of Psychology > Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Samuel Hutton |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2012 15:35 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2012 11:51 |
| URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13370 |