… An approach-avoidance tendency or a motivational ambivalence toward high-calorie food
stimuli in overweight/obese persons makes sense, as these persons might experience a …

… Furthermore, we provide fMRI evidence that in obese individuals food stimulation
restrained to vision is sufficient to activate those parts of the reward system, which have been …

… activations evoked by food and monetary rewards in individuals with obesity, overweight …
brain activations and BMI. We hypothesized that, in response to high palatable foods, excess …

… result in enhanced processing as compared to non-food stimuli. We expected larger P3 and
LPP amplitudes when individuals are exposed to food stimuli as compared to control stimuli (…

… demonstrated an attentional bias for food stimuli in obese individuals using a range of implicit
… has also demonstrated that food cues elicit an approach bias (using the stimulus response …

… After leaving the scanner, they rated color printed individual binge and non-binge food stimuli
on likeability and binge eating likelihood (−100 to +100). These ratings allowed analysis of …

… This greater responsivity to food-associated cues could be reflected in the increased
conditioned eye response in obese individuals observed in our experiment. A food-related cue …

… -obese individuals have a decreased ability to “turn off” the response to food cues after
overfeeding as compared to thin individuals … neuronal responses to visual stimuli as measured by …

… , foods. This study suggests that severely obese individuals are particularly sensitive to
high-calorie food cues whereas low-calorie food cues have little effect on their behavior. …

… Fifteen out of the 19 studies featured in this review support the notion of enhanced attentional
biases to food stimuli in individuals with obesity. While breadth in experimental approach …