Attentional bias in addictive behaviors: a review of its development, causes, and consequences

M Field, WM Cox - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2008 - Elsevier
A wealth of research from the past two decades shows that addictive behaviors are
characterized by attentional biases for substance-related stimuli. We review the relevant …

A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between attentional bias and subjective craving in substance abuse.

M Field, MR Munafò, IHA Franken - Psychological bulletin, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Theoretical models of addiction suggest that attentional bias for substance-related cues
should be associated with self-reported craving. The authors evaluated the strength of the …

Mindfulness training modifies cognitive, affective, and physiological mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence: results of a randomized controlled pilot trial

EL Garland, SA Gaylord, CA Boettiger… - … of psychoactive drugs, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mindfulness training may disrupt the risk chain of stress-precipitated alcohol relapse. In
2008, 53 alcohol-dependent adults (mean age= 40.3) recruited from a therapeutic …

Can (not) take my eyes off it: attention bias for food in overweight participants.

J Werthmann, A Roefs, C Nederkoorn, K Mogg… - Health …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The aim of the current study was to investigate attention biases for food cues,
craving, and overeating in overweight and healthy-weight participants. Specifically, it was …

Cue-elicited heart rate variability and attentional bias predict alcohol relapse following treatment

EL Garland, IHA Franken, MO Howard - Psychopharmacology, 2012 - Springer
Rationale Identification of malleable neurocognitive predictors of relapse among alcohol-
dependent individuals is important for the optimization of health care delivery and clinical …

Effects of a low dose of alcohol on cognitive biases and craving in heavy drinkers

T Schoenmakers, RW Wiers, M Field - Psychopharmacology, 2008 - Springer
Rationale Heavy alcohol drinking increases the incentive salience of alcohol-related cues.
This leads to increased appetitive motivation to drink alcohol as measured by subjective …

Evidence for incentive salience sensitization as a pathway to alcohol use disorder

RU Cofresí, BD Bartholow, TM Piasecki - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
The incentive salience sensitization (ISS) theory of addiction holds that addictive behavior
stems from the ability of drugs to progressively sensitize the brain circuitry that mediates …

Mindfulness is inversely associated with alcohol attentional bias among recovering alcohol-dependent adults

EL Garland, CA Boettiger, S Gaylord… - Cognitive therapy and …, 2012 - Springer
Although mindfulness has been linked with salutary clinical outcomes, less is known about
its relation to cognitive mechanisms implicated in the onset and maintenance of alcohol …

Transcranial direct current stimulation, implicit alcohol associations and craving

TE den Uyl, TE Gladwin, RW Wiers - Biological psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
(DLPFC) enhances working memory (eg in the n-back task), and reduces craving for …

Attentional biases in abstinent alcoholics and their association with craving.

M Field, K Mogg, B Mann, GA Bennett… - Psychology of Addictive …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous investigations of attentional bias for alcohol cues in abstinent alcoholics indicate
enhanced processing of alcohol cues on the modified Stroop task, and a more complicated …