Attentional biases towards food cues may be linked to the development of obesity. The
present study investigated the mechanisms underlying attentional biases to food cues by …

Background Changing eating behaviour may be challenging for individuals with obesity and
this may be related to attentional bias towards food. Previous paradigms used to assess …

Studies from our laboratory have shown that, relative to neutral objects, food-related objects
kept in working memory (WM) are particularly effective in guiding attention to food stimuli …

Obese and overweight individuals show a marked attentional bias to food cues. Food-
related attentional bias may therefore play a causal role in over-eating. To test this …

Eating behaviour requires that internal metabolic changes are recognized by the central
nervous system which regulates brain responses to food cues. This function may be altered …

The incentive sensitisation model of obesity suggests that modification of the dopaminergic
associated reward systems in the brain may result in increased awareness of food-related …

Living in an 'obesogenic'environment poses a serious challenge for weight maintenance.
However, many people are able to maintain a healthy weight indicating that not everybody is …

Attentional bias is an implicit cognition relevant to development and maintenance of obesity,
but little is known of how binge eating modulates attentional bias in severe obesity. This …

Because of inconsistencies in the field of attentional bias to food cues in eating behavior,
this study aimed to re-examine the assumption that hungry healthy weight individuals have …

Visual attention for food is likely to play an important role for overeating. The attentional bias
for visual food stimuli was investigated with respect to self-reported restrained, external and …