Eating up cognitive resources: Does attentional consumption lead to food consumption?

ABSTRACT: What is the role played by attentional load in eating? Does attending to an unrelated task generally lead to overeating, perhaps by preventing individuals from focusing on a goal to limit consumption? Or does such attentional diversion typically lead to reductions in eating, perhaps by preventing people from noticing tempting features of relevant food cues? Past research has supported each of these two propositions, but comparisons between existing studies have been hampered to the extent that various experimental manipulations differ in the degree to which they occupy attention, as well as differing in the particular type of attentional resources they exploit. To resolve existing discrepancies in the literature, in a series of studies, we made use of a working memory manipulation, the n-b

SUBMITTER: Volz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8058276 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature