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Reduced Attentional Scope in Cocaine Polydrug Users 1 2 1 Lorenza S. Colzato *, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg , Bernhard Hommel 1 Institute for Psychological Research Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2 Amsterdam Center for the Study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behaviour (ACACia) Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract Cocaine is Europe’s second preferred recreational drug after cannabis but very little is known about possible cognitive impairments in the upcoming type of recreational cocaine user (monthly consumption). We asked whether recreational use of cocaine impacts early attentional selection processes. Cocaine-free polydrug controls (n = 18) and cocaine polydrug users (n = 18) were matched on sex, age, alcohol consumption, and IQ (using the Raven’s progressive matrices), and were tested by using the Global-Local task to measure the scope of attention. Cocaine polydrug users attended significantly more to local aspects of attended events, which fits with the idea that a reduced scope of attention may be associated with the perpetuation of the use of the drug. Citation: Colzato LS, van den Wildenberg WPM, Hommel B (2009) Reduced Attentional Scope in Cocaine Polydrug Users. PLoS ONE 4(6): e6043. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0006043 ´ Editor: Antonio Verdejo Garcıa, University of Granada, Spain Received February 24, 2009; Accepted May 30, 2009; Published June 25, 2009 Copyright: 2009 Colzato et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which