ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2011, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (9): 1355-1362.

• 研究前沿 • Previous Articles     Next Articles

The Cognitive Bias in Food Cues for Restricted Eaters: Evidences from Behavioral and Neuropsychological Studies

KONG Fan-Chang;ZHANG Yan;CHEN Hong;Shi Ming-Li;TODD Jackson;GAO Xiao   

  1. (1 School of Psychology, Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Ministry of Education), Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China)
    (2 Educational Science Department, Mianyang Normal University, Mianyang 621000, China)
  • Received:2011-04-18 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-09-15
  • Contact: CHEN Hong

Abstract: Restricted eating refers to consistent, cognitively-mediated efforts to restrict eating for the purpose of weight control. Considerable study has indicated that restricted eaters have cognitive biases in processing food cues, particularly high-energy or palatable food cues, relative to unrestricted eaters. Such biases are associated with specific patterns of electrophysiological activation in regions including the medial prefrontal cortex and cerebellum. Future experimental studies on restricted eating should employ strict selection criteria and employ varied methodological strategies including the odd-one-out and study-test paradigms to elucidate neural bases related to processing food cues and fully identify associated cognitive mechanisms and psychosocial influences in samples of Chinese restricted eaters.

Key words: restricted eating, food cues, cognitive bias, neural mechanism