App-based food Go/No-Go training: User engagement and dietary intake in an opportunistic observational study

Food-related inhibitory control training reduces food liking but not snacking frequency or weight in a large healthy adult sample

“…Another explanation could be the increased amount of training prior to the two-week outcome measure, compared to the immediate one; whilst we found no evidence for a doseresponse effect, our study was not designed to manipulate and test dose. Previous studies have indicated that training effects are independent of the number of stimulus pairings within a single session (Jones et al, 2016), suggesting that the best way to maximise training efficacy may be through increased attentional engagement using shorter sessions spread across multiple days (Aulbach et al, 2021;Bakkour et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2019;Veling et al, 2013a). Indeed, several of our active participants commented that the training should be comple ed o er a grea er n mber of da s ( I hink ha an in er en ion o ld ha e o be repea ed more freq en l han I did his o ha e significan impac [11030, ac i e]; I hink i should be longer as 3 days isn't enough to retrain the habits of a life ime [11213, ac i e]), J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f b one commen ed ha i ma need o be more engaging o s ppor his ( I as no incredibly engaging, so if it was something that you are planning on people doing to loose eigh , he ma s op af er a fe imes [sic; 11545, active]).…”

Toward a better understanding of durable behavior change by food Go/NoGo training

“…The memory retrieval account suggests that strengthening the formation of memory representations during fGNG may increase the efficacy of fGNG in eliciting durable behavior change. Consistent with this logic, research has shown that enhancing attention to NoGo items [33,45], making the stimulus-response contingencies explicit [46] or more meaningful (e.g., unhealthy = NoGo) [47], and distributing training over time [48] are all related to a higher efficacy of fGNG. What these manipulations have in common is that they may all boost memory representations for the trained items.…”

A Program for the Comprehensive Cognitive Training of Excess Weight (TRAINEP): The Study Protocol for A Randomized, Controlled Trial

“…For this, we will calculate an error learning rate by subtracting the error rate on No-Go trials of unhealthy foods from the error rate on No-Go trials of non-food images. The learning rate will be higher the lower the error rate with unhealthy foods relative to non-food images [ 17 ].…”

“…Inhibition training with the Food Trainer task application [ 17 ]. This application applies a Go/No-Go training.…”

“…Cognitive training strategies aimed at changing these imbalanced systems have been reviewed for their individual effectiveness [ 14 ], and the results have shown their potential for instilling healthy habits and weight loss [ 15 ]. Some of these cognitive strategies for unhealthy eating and obesity include approach–avoidance bias modification [ 16 ], response inhibition training [ 17 ], implementation of intentions [ 18 ], and episodic future thinking [ 19 ].…”