Dietary self-control influences top–down guidance of attention to food cues

Higgs, Suzanne; Dolmans, Dirk; Humphreys, Glyn W.; Rutters, Femke

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00427

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“…Moreover, it was not differentiated if dieters were successful or unsuccessful. In a recent study, it could be shown that successful dieters’ reaction times were less affected by food cues in a working memory task, indicating that dieting success may indeed moderate food cue-related working memory performance (Higgs et al, 2015). …”

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Dieting and Food Cue-Related Working Memory Performance

Meule

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Executive functioning (e.g., working memory) is tightly intertwined with self-regulation. For example, food cue-elicited craving has been found to impair working memory performance. Furthermore, current dieters have been found to show lower working memory performance than non-dieters. Recent research, however, suggests that it is crucial to consider dieting success in addition to current dieting status or restrained eating in order to reveal cognitive mechanisms that are associated with successful eating-related self-regulation. The current study investigated food cue-related working memory performance as a function of dieting status and dieting success in female students. Participants performed an n-back task with pictures of food and neutral objects. Reaction time in response to food pictures was slower than in response to neutral pictures, whereas omission errors did not differ between picture types. Current food craving was increased after performing the food block, but not after the neutral block. There was an indirect effect of current dieting status on higher food craving after the food block, which was mediated by slower reaction time to food vs. neutral pictures. Furthermore, higher dieting success was associated with fewer omission errors in the food vs. neutral block in current dieters. There were no relationships of restrained eating with current food craving and task performance. Results further highlight the need to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful dieting in addition to current dieting status or restrained eating when examining possible mechanisms of overeating or successful restraint. Although palatable food cues induce food craving regardless of dieting success, they may boost executive functioning in successful dieters, which helps them to overcome these temptations.

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Dieting and Food Cue-Related Working Memory Performance

Meule

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…Participants identified the target faster while memorising food stimuli compared with non-food stimuli. This suggests that thinking about food is potentially associated with lower cognitive load than thinking about non-food stimuli [5,6,[13][14][15]. We also showed a stronger validity effect to food items.…”

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“…Across several behavioural studies, we showed that holding foodrelated information in working memory biases attention to food stimuli (e.g. [5,13]). Participants identified the target faster while memorising food stimuli compared with non-food stimuli.…”

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Neural correlates of top-down guidance of attention to food: An fMRI study

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Higgs

Dolmans

et al. 2020

Physiology & Behavior

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“…In a recent study, a similar task was used in combination with the TFEQ disinhibition scale and an attentional bias to energy dense food was again reported to be largest in the group high in disinhibition [21]. Furthermore, it was shown that the tendency towards disinhibited eating was associated with greater attention to food versus non-food pictures in a priming and working memory task [22]. The aim of our study was to explore how individual disinhibition scores modulate attentional networks in the presence of food stimuli not only on the behavioral, but also on the neuronal level.…”

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Modulation of attentional networks by food-related disinhibition

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Stingl

Veit

et al. 2017

Physiology & Behavior

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The risk of weight gain is especially related to disinhibition, which indicates the responsiveness to external food stimuli with associated disruptions in eating control. We adapted a food-related version of the attention network task and used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the effects of disinhibition on attentional networks in 19 normal-weight participants. High disinhibition scores were associated with a rapid reorienting response to food pictures after invalid cueing and with an enhanced alerting effect of a warning cue signalizing the upcoming appearance of a food picture. Imaging data revealed activation of a right-lateralized ventral attention network during reorienting. The faster the reorienting and the higher the disinhibition score, the less activation of this network was observed. The alerting contrast showed activation in visual, temporo-parietal and anterior sites. These modulations of attentional networks by food-related disinhibition might be related to an attentional bias to energy dense and palatable food and increased intake of food in disinhibited individuals.

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Dietary self-control influences top–down guidance of attention to food cues

Cited by 26 publications

References 23 publications

Dieting and Food Cue-Related Working Memory Performance

Dieting and Food Cue-Related Working Memory Performance

Neural correlates of top-down guidance of attention to food: An fMRI study

Modulation of attentional networks by food-related disinhibition

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