Nicotine deprivation elevates neural representation of smoking-related cues in object-sensitive visual cortex: a proof of concept study.

Anne HavermansOnno C P van SchayckEric F P M VuurmanWim J RiedelJob van den Hurk

Published in: Psychopharmacology (2017)

The discriminability between smoking and non-smoking visual objects was elevated in object-selective brain region LOC after a period of nicotine abstinence. This indicates that attention bias likely affects basic visual object processing.

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