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Neurophysiological correlates of biased
cognitive processing in addiction
Marianne Littel
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Copyright © 2012 M. Littel
All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced or transmitted in any
form, by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the prior written permission
of the author, or where appropriate, of the publisher of the articles.
The research presented in this dissertation was supported by the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI grant 016.08.322).
Neurophysiological correlates of biased
cognitive processing in addiction
Neurofysiologische correlaten van verstoorde
cognitieve verwerking in verslaving
PROEFSCHRIFT
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
op gezag van de
rector magnificus
Prof.dr. H.G. Schmidt
en volgens besluit van het College van Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op
vrijdag 1 juni 2012 om 9:30 uur
door
Marianneke Littel
geboren te Willemstad
Promotiecommissie:
Promotor:
Prof.dr. I.H.A. Franken
Overige leden:
Prof.dr. J.W. van Strien
Prof.dr. R. Zwaan
Prof.dr. W. van den Brink
voor mijn ouders

Contents
Neurophysiological correlates of biased cognitive processing in addiction
Chapter 1 Electrophysiological indices of biased cognitive
processing of substance-related cues: a meta-analysis 9
Chapter 2 Overall outline and hypotheses 41
Chapter 3 Psychometric properties of the brief Questionnaire on
Smoking Urges (QSU-Brief) in a Dutch smoker population 47
Chapter 4 The effects of prolonged abstinence on the processing
of smoking cues: an ERP study among smokers,
ex-smokers and never-smokers 59
Chapter 5 Changes in the electroencephalographic spectrum in
response to smoking cues in smokers and ex-smokers 83
Chapter 6 Implicit and explicit selective attention to smoking
cues in smokers indexed by brain potentials 99
Chapter 7 Electrophysiological correlates of associative learning
in smokers: a higher-order conditioning experiment 123
Chapter 8 Intentional modulation of the Late Positive Potential in
response to smoking cues by cognitive strategies in smokers 147
Chapter 9 Reduced cognitive processing of alcohol cues in alcohol-
dependent patients seeking treatment: an ERP study 173
Chapter 10 Error-processing and response inhibition in excessive
computer game players: an ERP study 189
Chapter 11 Summary and discussion 211
References 235
Samenvatting (summary in Dutch) 265
Dankwoord (acknowledgements in Dutch) 291
Curriculum Vitae 297
Publications 299

Chapter
Electrophysiological indices of biased
cognitive processing of substance-
related cues: a meta-analysis
1
Littel, M., Euser, A.S., Munafo, M.R., & Franken, I.H.A. (submitted
for publication). Electrophysiological indices of biased cognitive
processing of substance-related cues: a meta-analysis.