Eye on the Prize: High-Risk Gamblers Show Sustained Selective Attention to Gambling Cues

Journal of gambling issues

Sunghwan Yi¹  Amanda Hudson¹  Karen Gough¹  Sherry H. Stewart¹  Bunmi O. Olatunji¹ 

关键词: gambling;   

DOI  :  10.4309/jgi.2016.34.6

学科分类：内科医学

来源: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (C A M H)

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Disordered gambling is characterized by persistent and problematic gambling, leading to impairment or distress, which may be exacerbated by vigilance to gambling cues in the environment. Yet, questions regarding the specific attentional biases present in gamblers remain unresolved. In the current study, we used a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm to examine attentional orienting and maintenance/disengagement for gambling stimuli, relative to emotional and neutral stimuli, in high- and low-risk gamblers (N = 57). High-risk gamblers showed attentional biases for gambling stimuli, relative to other distractors, and these biases were observed at the level of attentional maintenance/disengagement. Low-risk gamblers showed some evidence of non-specific attentional biases (to negative and gambling pictures). Low-risk, but not high-risk, gamblers demonstrated sustained biases for negative items and facilitated disengagement from positive items. Findings highlight differences in attentional proces...

【 授权许可】

Unknown