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Stimulus Control Over Action for Food in Obese versus Healthy-weight Individuals
2017
Frontiers in Psychology
In the current study we examined an associative learning mechanism by which food cues (signaling low-versus high-calorie food) can bias instrumental responses directed toward those foods. To investigate the clinical relevance of this mechanism, we used a computerized Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task and compared performance of 19 severely obese individuals to that of 19 healthy-weight controls matched for age, education and gender. During the response-priming test we exposed participants
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00580
pmid:28450844
pmcid:PMC5389979
fatcat:o63tdsv34zgkxjjvgyxusr5lj4