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Sweet lies: neural, visual, and behavioral measures reveal a lack of self-control conflict during food choice in weight-concerned women

Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2014-05, Vol.8, p.184-184 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Sweet lies: neural, visual, and behavioral measures reveal a lack of self-control conflict during food choice in weight-concerned women
Author: van der Laan, Laura N ; de Ridder, Denise T D ; Charbonnier, Lisette ; Viergever, Max A ; Smeets, Paul A M
Subjects: anterior cingulate cortex ; brain activation ; Brain research ; cognitive reappraisal ; conflict monitoring ; Cortex (cingulate) ; data suggest ; decision-making ; dietary restraint ; Eating behavior ; fMRI ; Food ; food choice ; Functional magnetic resonance imaging ; Gender differences ; implicit measures ; Neuroscience ; NMR ; Nuclear magnetic resonance ; Nutrition ; Questionnaires ; responses ; scales valid measures ; Self control ; sex matters ; Studies ; Sweet taste ; temptations ; visual attention ; Visual cortex
Is Part Of: Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2014-05, Vol.8, p.184-184
Description: Despite their intentions, weight-concerned individuals generally fail to control their eating behavior. However, it is unknown whether this failure is due to a lack of effortful self-control, or to not experiencing an internal conflict between weight goals and food temptations. The present study used fMRI, eye tracking and reaction times to assess the degree of conflict experienced by weight-concerned women during food choices that posed either a self-control dilemma (i.e., requiring a choice between healthy and palatable foods), or not. Contrary to the common assumption in self-control theory that food choices posing a self-control dilemma evoke internal conflict, we found that choices requiring self-control induced no conflict, as demonstrated by lower reaction times, fixation durations, number of gaze switches between snacks, and lower activation of the anterior cingulate cortex. Our results suggest that self-control failure might be due to a lack of experienced conflict, rather than to failing to act upon the perception of such conflict. This implies that effectiveness of weight maintenance interventions might be improved if they also focus on increasing the ability to detect a self-control dilemma, in addition to the current focus on increasing self-regulatory capacity.
Publisher: Switzerland: Frontiers Research Foundation
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1662-5153
EISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00184
PMID: 24904336
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Sweet lies: neural, visual, and behavioral measures reveal a lack of self-control conflict during food choice in weight-concerned women

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