Neurophysiological Effects Associated With Subliminal Conditioning of Appetite Motivations

When attempting to encourage eating, explicitly providing statements like "eating is pleasant" may produce little effect. This may be due to subjective, negatively-valenced narratives evoked by perception of the verb "eating" (e.g., eating →fat →lonely), overriding any explicitly provided eating-pleasant valence information. In our study, we presented eating-related verbs under subliminal visual conditions to mitigate the onset of eating-associated deliberation. Verbs were linked with neutral or positively valenced terms across independent blocks. Modulations of event-related magnetoencephalographic (MEG) components and parietal activations in the alpha range (8-12 Hz) illustrated a significant effect of valence during pre-lexical time windows. We found significantly greater saliva production and declarations of increasing hunger after eating-related verbs were linked with positive terms. Orally reported preferences did not vary between conditions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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Frontiers in psychology - 10(2019) vom: 30., Seite 457

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Amd, Micah [VerfasserIn]
Baillet, Sylvain [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Appetite
Eating disorders
Journal Article
Learning theory
Magnetoencephalography
Motivation
Subliminal conditioning

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Date Revised 06.10.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00457

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295138033