dc.contributor.author | Noël, Xavier | |
dc.contributor.author | Brevers, Damien | |
dc.contributor.author | Hanak, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.author | Kornreich, Charles | |
dc.contributor.author | Verbanck, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Verbruggen, Frederick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-19T15:33:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background and objectives
Response inhibition is usually considered a hallmark of executive control. However, recent work indicates that stop performance can become associatively mediated (‘automatic’) over practice. This study investigated automatic response inhibition in sober and recently detoxified individuals with alcoholism..
Methods
We administered to forty recently detoxified alcoholics and forty healthy participants a modified stop-signal task that consisted of a training phase in which a subset of the stimuli was consistently associated with stopping or going, and a test phase in which this mapping was reversed.
Results
In the training phase, stop performance improved for the consistent stop stimuli, compared with control stimuli that were not associated with going or stopping. In the test phase, go performance tended to be impaired for old stop stimuli. Combined, these findings support the automatic inhibition hypothesis. Importantly, performance was similar in both groups, which indicates that automatic inhibitory control develops normally in individuals with alcoholism..
Limitations
This finding is specific to individuals with alcoholism without other psychiatric disorders, which is rather atypical and prevents generalization. Personalized stimuli with a stronger affective content should be used in future studies.
Conclusions
These results advance our understanding of behavioral inhibition in individuals with alcoholism. Furthermore, intact automatic inhibitory control may be an important element of successful cognitive remediation of addictive behaviors. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Belgium Fund for Scientific Research | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Center for Responsible Gaming | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 51, pp. 84 - 91 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.01.003 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 14644807 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 312445 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19298 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | Accepted manuscript: © 2016, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Alcoholism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Automatic response inhibition | en_GB |
dc.subject | Stop-signal task | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cognitive remediation | en_GB |
dc.title | On the automaticity of response inhibition in individuals with alcoholism | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0005-7916 | |
dc.description | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in <Journal title>. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Vol. 51 (2016), DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.01.003 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-7943 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | en_GB |