Attentional bias to smoking-related stimuli is an important behavioural feature of tobacco
dependence. The overall aim for this thesis is to investigate if attentional bias can serve as a …

The aim of this study was to assess the severity of dependence as a factor affecting the
attentional bias of smokers towards smoking-related stimuli and to clarify contradictory …

Theoretical models of nicotine abuse suggest that preferential attention allocation towards
smoking-related stimuli plays an important role in the development and maintenance of …

Attentional bias has been defined as the propensity of a person to allocate selective
attention automatically to salient cues (Field and Powell,). In the case of smoking, this bias …

Research on smoking cue reactivity has increasingly focused on attentional processes
engaged by smoking-relevant cues and applying models and methods from cognitive …

Introduction: We examined whether an attentional bias modification (ABM) procedure would
produce a persistent and generalizable change in attentional bias, and influence subjective …

Introduction Theory and data suggest that attentional bias (AB) to drug-related cues should
be associated with craving when smoking motivation is high, and that AB should be …

Aims Attentional bias for drug‐related cues has been associated with drug maintenance and
relapse. We investigated whether attentional bias for smoking‐related stimuli could be …

Background: Many studies have found that smokers' attentional bias toward cigarette-related
cues and cognitive control impairment significantly impacts their cigarette use. However …

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 …