Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task

ConclusionsSocial drinkers may exhibit generalised attentional bias towards alcoholic and non-alcoholicappetitive cues. This adds to emergent research suggesting that the mechanisms driving these individual ’s attention towards alcoholic cues might ‘spill over’ to other appetitive cues, possibly due to associative learning.
Source: Psychopharmacology - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research