Food-pics: An image database for experimental research on eating and appetite

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Blechert, Jens ^a   Meule, Adrian ^b,c   Busch, Niko A ^d,e   Ohla, Kathrin ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eating behavior; ERP; FMRI; Food pictures; Food cues; Image properties; Obesity; Standardized food images

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904565255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00617     Document Type: Article

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