Corrigendum

The effects of acute exercise on attentional bias towards smoking-related stimuli during temporary abstinence from smoking

Kate Janse Van Rensburg, Adrian Taylor & Tim Hodgson

In the Methods section of this paper [1] it is given that:

Twenty filler pairs were interspersed randomly within the 20 smoking/neutral pairs. Images were displayed for 1000 ms and randomized between each trial and each participant. We ensured that smoking images appeared equally on the left and the right of the screen, but in a random sequence. The duration of image presentation in the present study falls between those reported in recent studies in this area: Waters and colleagues [10] used a 500 ms presentation, while Mogg and colleagues [4, 5] used 2000 ms. Our timing appears to be of adequate length to measure sustained attention and allow for fluctuations between images, yet brief enough to avoid disinterest in the images.

This should have read:

Twenty filler pairs were interspersed randomly within the 20 smoking/neutral pairs. Images were displayed for 10000 ms and randomized between each trial and each participant. We ensured that smoking images appeared equally on the left and the right of the screen, but in a random sequence. The duration of image presentation was chosen as it appears to be of adequate length to measure sustained attention and allow for fluctuations between images, yet brief enough to avoid a lack of interest in the images.

The authors apologise for this error