External eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues

Ruihua Hou; Karin Mogg; Brendan P. Bradley; Rona Moss-Morris; Robert Peveler; Anne Roefs

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2011.01.019

External eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues

Ruihua Hou, Karin Mogg, Brendan P. Bradley, Rona Moss-Morris, Robert Peveler, Anne Roefs

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Abstract

Cognitive and behavioural responses to food reward, such as attentional biases and overeating, have been associated with individual differences in reward-responsiveness and impulsivity. This study investigated relationships between external eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues, assessed using the pictorial visual-probe task. As previously reported, attentional bias correlated positively with external eating. Additional novel findings were: (i) attentional bias for food cues was positively related to trait impulsivity, (ii) attentional bias remained related to attention impulsivity after controlling for external eating. Our findings highlight the relationship between the ability to control impulsive responding and selective attention to food cues. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	424 - 427
Number of pages	4
Journal	Appetite
Volume	56
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2011.01.019
Publication status	Published - Apr 2011

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