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In heavy drinkers, training attention towards alcohol cues increases alcohol craving, but it is not clear if effects of ‘attentional training’ generalise to novel stimuli and measurement procedures.

We investigated possible generalisation of attentional training to novel alcohol cues and other methods of measuring cognitive bias.

A modified visual probe task was used to train participants to direct their attention either towards (‘attend alcohol’ group) or away from (‘avoid alcohol’ group) alcohol cues; attentional bias was not manipulated in a control group (total N = 60). After attentional training, we measured cognitive bias (using visual probe, modified Stroop, flicker-induced change blindness and stimulus–response compatibility tasks), alcohol craving and alcohol consumption …