Emotional activation of obese and normal women due to imagery and food content of verbal stimuli in a memory task

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-54

  Fioravanti, Mario ^a   Polzonetti, C M ^a   Nocca, D ^a   Spera, G ^a   Falcone, S ^a   Lazzari, R ^a   Colosimo, A ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Imagery; Memory; Obesity; Reaction time; Recognition; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REACTION TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION; VOLUNTEER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOOD; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REACTION TIME; READING; ROME; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0346392605     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-0153(03)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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