Stop signals decrease choices for palatable foods through decreased food evaluation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Veling, Harm ^a   Aarts, Henk ^b   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appetite; Food evaluation; Go no go task; Motor inhibition; Stop signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889674511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00875     Document Type: Article

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