@misc{10481/61578,
year = {2019},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61578},
abstract = {Addiction is accompanied by attentional biases (AB), wherein drug-related cues grab attention
independently of their perceptual salience. AB have emerged in different flavours depending on
the experimental approach, and their clinical relevance is still debated. In chronic smokers we
sought evidence for dissociable attention abnormalities that may play distinct roles in the clinical
manifestations of the disorder. Fifty smokers performed a modified visual probe-task measuring two
forms of AB and their temporal dynamics, and data on their personality traits and smoking history/
status were collected. Two fully dissociable AB effects were found: A Global effect, reflecting the overall
impact of smoke cues on attention, and a Location-specific effect, indexing the impact of smoke cues
on visuospatial orienting. Importantly, the two effects could be neatly separated from one another
as they: (i) unfolded with dissimilar temporal dynamics, (ii) were accounted for by different sets of
predictors associated with personality traits and smoking history and (iii) were not correlated with one
another. Importantly, the relevance of each of these two components in the single individual depends
on a complex blend of personality traits and smoking habits, a result that future efforts addressing the
clinical relevance of addiction-related AB should take into careful consideration.},
organization = {This study was supported by funding provided by the University of Verona to CDL, CC and LC},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
title = {Revealing Dissociable Attention Biases in Chronic Smokers Through an Individual-Differences Approach},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-40957-0},
author = {Della Libera, Chiara and Zandonai, Thomas},
}