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Attentional mediation of conditioned appetitive behaviour in humans

Reference	BBS/B/09384
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Theodora Duka
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Anthony Dickinson, Professor Lee Hogarth, Dr Samuel Hutton
Institution	University of Sussex
Department	Sch of Psychology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	179,971
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	04/05/2004
End date	03/05/2007
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Attentional processing of stimuli (S+) that signal the availability of appetitive reinforcement may mediate the production of conditional behaviours directed towards the reinforcer. It is well established that appetitive S+ command selective attention, elicit physiological excitation and produce instrumental reinforcer-seeking and consummatory behaviour. The aim of this project is to measure these response forms in parallel in an established human appetitive discrimination procedure and then disrupt attention for the S+ with a secondary task in the expectation that this manipulation will block the other response forms to the S+. Such data would demonstrate that selective attention for S+ mediates conditioned appetitive behaviour in humans.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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