Publications

Authors:

Perlato, Andrea; Santandrea, Elisa; DELLA LIBERA, Chiara; Chelazzi, Leonardo

Title:

Biases of attention in chronic smokers: men and women are not alike.

Year:

2014

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

ISSN of journal:

1530-7026

N° Volume:

14

Number or Folder:

2

Page numbers:

742-755

Keyword:

attention; motivation; reward; personality

Short description of contents:

The activation of motivational systems by stimuli in the environment that are associated with rewarding experiences is able to trigger plastic changes in the brain, thereby altering the attentional priority of those stimuli. As a result, attentional deployment is often abnormal in addiction, with drug-related stimuli attracting attention automatically and gaining control over behavior. For example, smokers show attentional biases toward smoke-related cues, but the mechanisms underlying these effects and the nature of their link to addiction are still debated. Here, we investigated the influence of gender and individual factors on the temporal dynamics of attentional deployment toward smoke-related stimuli in young smokers. Crucially, we found a striking gender difference, with only males exhibiting a typical attentional bias for smoke-related items, and the bias revealed strong time dependency. Additionally, for both males and females, various personality traits and smoking habits predicted the direction and strength of the measured bias. Overall, these results unveil a crucial influence of several predictors-notably, gender-on the biases of attention toward smoke-related items in chronic smokers.

Web page:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0287-6

Product ID:

82639

Handle IRIS:

11562/716771

Deposited On:

August 19, 2014

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Perlato, Andrea; Santandrea, Elisa; DELLA LIBERA, Chiara; Chelazzi, Leonardo, Biases of attention in chronic smokers: men and women are not alike. «COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE» , vol. 14 , n. 2 , 2014 , pp. 742-755

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