Detection Versus Sustained Attention to Drug Cues Have Dissociable Roles in Mediating Drug Seeking Behavior

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-30

  Hogarth, Lee ^a   Dickinson, Anthony ^b   Duka, Theodora ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

addiction; drug conditioning; drug seeking; human attentional bias; salience

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SMOKING;

ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; REWARD; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 62549135327     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014957     Document Type: Article

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