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Novelty, conditioning and attentional bias to sexual rewards

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Psychiatric Research, October 2015
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Title
Novelty, conditioning and attentional bias to sexual rewards
Published in
Journal of Psychiatric Research, October 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.10.017
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Paula Banca, Laurel S. Morris, Simon Mitchell, Neil A. Harrison, Marc N. Potenza, Valerie Voon

Abstract

The Internet provides a large source of novel and rewarding stimuli, particularly with respect to sexually explicit materials. Novelty-seeking and cue-conditioning are fundamental processes underlying preference and approach behaviors implicated in disorders of addiction. Here we examine these processes in individuals with compulsive sexual behaviors (CSB), hypothesizing a greater preference for sexual novelty and stimuli conditioned to sexual rewards relative to healthy volunteers. Twenty-two CSB males and forty age-matched male volunteers were tested in two separate behavioral tasks focusing on preferences for novelty and conditioned stimuli. Twenty subjects from each group were also assessed in a third conditioning and extinction task using functional magnetic resonance imaging. CSB was associated with enhanced novelty preference for sexual, as compared to control images, and a generalized preference for cues conditioned to sexual and monetary versus neutral outcomes compared to healthy volunteers. CSB individuals also had greater dorsal cingulate habituation to repeated sexual versus monetary images with the degree of habituation correlating with enhanced preference for sexual novelty. Approach behaviors to sexually conditioned cues dissociable from novelty preference were associated with an early attentional bias to sexual images. This study shows that CSB individuals have a dysfunctional enhanced preference for sexual novelty possibly mediated by greater cingulate habituation along with a generalized enhancement of conditioning to rewards. We further emphasize a dissociable role for cue-conditioning and novelty preference on the early attentional bias for sexual cues. These findings have wider relevance as the Internet provides a broad range of novel and potentially rewarding stimuli.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 193 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 14%
Student > Master 27 14%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 6%
Other 28 14%
Unknown 59 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 60 31%
Neuroscience 17 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 6%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 2%
Other 25 13%
Unknown 72 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 88. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2023.
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#2
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