Exposure to cues of harsh or safe environmental conditions alters food preferences [PDF]
, 2015 In humans, psychological stress is positively correlated with an increased desire for certain energy-dense food items, indicating that stress may trigger foraging behavior that adapts to perceived current and future resource availability.
Swaffield, Jim, Roberts, S Craig
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Determining How Chinese Consumers that Purchase Western Food Products Prioritize Food Safety Cues: A Conjoint Study on Adult Milk Powder [PDF]
, 2021 This study investigated how Chinese consumers prioritize cues when assessing the safety of imported milk powder. A choice-based conjoint survey was completed by 307 participants in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Nanjing, using the internet-based ...
Bremer, Phil, Mirosa, Miranda, Liu, Yang
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The sensory system acts with a neuromedin U signaling pathway to mediate food type-dependent effects on lifespan [PDF]
, 2010 In order to survive, the animal uses its sensory system to interpret the complexity of its environment. Interestingly, a subset of sensory neurons, which function in taste or olfaction, has been found to influence the lifespan of C.
Adilov, Bakhtiyor
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Cues of maternal condition influence offspring selfishness [PDF]
, 2014 The evolution of parent-offspring communication was mostly studied from the perspective of parents responding tobegging signals conveying information about offspring condition.
Christophe Lucas (222118) +14 more
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2017 Background Neighborhood food cues have been inconsistently related to residents’ health, possibly due to variations in residents’ sensitivity to such cues.
Catherine Paquet +6 more
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Consumption simulations induce salivation to food cues [PDF]
, 2016 Salivation to food cues is typically explained in terms of mere stimulus-response links. However, food cues seem to especially increase salivation when food is attractive, suggesting a more complex psychological process.
Henk Aarts (113194) +26 more
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Dietary self-control influences top-down guidance of attention to food cues
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Motivational objects attract attention due to their rewarding properties, but less is known about the role that top-down cognitive processes play in the attention paid to motivationally relevant objects and how this is affected by relevant behaviour ...
Suzanne eHiggs +3 more
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Culinary Cognition: The Interplay Between Visual Sensory Cues, Food Memory, And Food Perception [PDF]
This study provides insight to food producers and marketers about consumers’ decision-making processes through visual cues and high-level cognitive factors, where consumers frequently make food selections without tasting them at online and/or onsite ...
Funda, Yildirim +5 more
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Dieting and food cue-related working memory performance
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 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.
Adrian Meule, Adrian Meule
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Characterizing motor impulsivity of individuals classified as overweight to obese
Sports Medicine and Health Science, 2023 Deficits in the impulse control system are an important predictor of energy intake and body weight. Adults classified as overweight to obese may possess these deficits as a general behavioral trait or they may be food-specific. The present study assessed
Kyle D. Flack +3 more
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