Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Behavioral Neurobiology Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2025

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type

Articles 61 - 61 of 61

Full-Text Articles in Behavioral Neurobiology

Simulated Slot Machine Gambling In Relation To Sign-Tracking, Polina Krom Jan 2025

Simulated Slot Machine Gambling In Relation To Sign-Tracking, Polina Krom

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The propensity to attribute incentive salience to reward-related cues, or sign-tracking (ST) has been linked to addiction in animal models and some initial human data. The current study explores the role of sign-tracking (ST), as a potential risk factor for problematic slot machine gambling, which abundantly features audiovisual reward-related cues, henceforth sensory features. A sample of healthy participants without gambling problems (n = 30) completed a Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) paradigm to assess ST propensity and played on a realistic slot machine simulator consisting of two versions: with sensory features (SF+) and without (SF-). Each game version had fixed bet sizes, …