Eye Tracking Studies Exploring Cognitive and Affective Processes among Alcohol Drinkers: a Systematic Review and Perspec
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Eye Tracking Studies Exploring Cognitive and Affective Processes among Alcohol Drinkers: a Systematic Review and Perspectives Pierre Maurage 1
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Zoé Bollen 1
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Nicolas Masson 2,3
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Fabien D’Hondt 4,5
Received: 5 September 2019 / Accepted: 23 September 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Acute alcohol intoxication and alcohol use disorders are characterized by a wide range of psychological and cerebral impairments, which have been widely explored using neuropsychological and neuroscientific techniques. Eye tracking has recently emerged as an innovative tool to renew this exploration, as eye movements offer complementary information on the processes underlying perceptive, attentional, memory or executive abilities. Building on this, the present systematic and critical literature review provides a comprehensive overview of eye tracking studies exploring cognitive and affective processes among alcohol drinkers. Using PRISMA guidelines, 36 papers that measured eye movements among alcohol drinkers were extracted from three databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus). They were assessed for methodological quality using a standardized procedure, and categorized based on the main cognitive function measured, namely perceptive abilities, attentional bias, executive function, emotion and prevention/intervention. Eye tracking indexes showed that alcohol-related disorders are related to: (1) a stable pattern of basic eye movement impairments, particularly during alcohol intoxication; (2) a robust attentional bias, indexed by increased dwell times for alcohol-related stimuli; (3) a reduced inhibitory control on saccadic movements; (4) an increased pupillary reactivity to visual stimuli, regardless of their emotional content; (5) a limited visual attention to prevention messages. Perspectives for future research are proposed, notably encouraging the exploration of eye movements in severe alcohol use disorders and the establishment of methodological gold standards for eye tracking measures in this field. Keywords Eye movements . Eye tracking . Attentional bias . Visual attention . Alcohol . Heavy drinking . Alcohol use disorders
Introduction Alcohol use and misuse constitute major public health concerns, leading to a vast range of adverse health consequences
(WHO, 2018) and being directly responsible for three to 8 % of deaths worldwide (Navarro et al., 2011; Rehm et al., 2009). Alcohol intoxication has a well-established negative impact on cognition and brain functioning (e.g., Bjork and Gilman,
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-020-09458-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Pierre Maurage [email protected] Zoé Bollen [email protected]
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Numerical Cognition Group, Psychological Sciences Research Institute and Neuroscience Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Institute of Cognitive Science and Assessment (COSA), Department of Behaviou
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