A flicker paradigm for inducing change blindness reveals alcohol and cannabis information processing biases in social users
A flicker paradigm for inducing change blindness reveals alcohol and cannabis information processing biases in social users
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00270.x
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发表时间:
2003-02-01
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6
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Copley, N
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Jones, BT;Jones, BC;Copley, N
Aim To apply a new paradigm using transient changes to visual scenes to explore information processing biases relating to 'social' levels of alcohol and cannabis use.Participants Male and female student volunteers (n = 200) not self-reporting substance-related problems.Setting Quiet testing areas throughout the university campus.Design A flicker paradigm, for inducing change blindness with lighter and heavier social users of alcohol (experiment 1, n = 100) and social users and non-users of cannabis (experiment 2, n = 100). explored the associations between habitual level of use and the latency to detection of a single substance-related or neutral change made to a scene of grouped substance-related and neutral objects.Measurements Alcohol use was measured as the number of units of the heaviest drinking day from the previous week; cannabis use as the number of months of use in previous 12. Change-detection latency comparisons were used to evaluate processing biases.Findings In both experiments, (i) heavier social users detected substance-related changes quicker than lighter and non-users; (ii) lighter and non-users detected substance-neutral changes quicker than heavier users: (iii) heavier social users detected substance-related quicker than substance-neutral changes; and (iv) lighter and non-users detected substance-neutral changes quicker than substance-related changes.Conclusions Alcohol and cannabis processing biases are found at levels of social use, have the potential to influence future consumption and for this reason merit further research.