Food Through the Child's Eye: An Eye-Tracking Study on Attentional Bias for Food in Healthy-Weight Children and Children With Obesity

Health Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1123-1132

  Werthmann, Jessica ^a   Vreugdenhil, Anita C E ^b   Jansen, Anita ^c   Nederkoorn, Chantal ^c   Schyns, Ghislaine ^c   Roefs, Anne ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FOOD; GAZE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; EYE MOVEMENT; HYPERPHAGIA; LIFESTYLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CUES; EATING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOOD; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; HYPERPHAGIA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84951905524     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000225     Document Type: Article

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