ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2011
Spontaneous action representation in smokers when watching movie characters smoke.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03766191 (The Relation of Genetic Factors, Food Cues, and Self-Regulation With Excess Consumption and Adiposity in Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Relation of Genetic Factors, Food Cues, and Self-Regulation With Excess Consumption and Adiposity in Children
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The orbitofrontal cortex spontaneously encodes food health and contains more distinct representations for foods highest in tastiness.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Estimation of Emotional Arousal Changes of a Group of Individuals During Movie Screening Using Steady-State Visual-Evoked Potential.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2021Article
- Movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging.NeuroImage · 2021Review
- A Neurobiological Model of Alcohol Marketing Effects on Underage Drinking.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. Supplement · 2020Review
- The Craving and Excitement of Social Networking Sites Addicts: Based on Cue-Reactivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and population health: the neuroscience of chronic disease prevention.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2018Review
- The Action Representation Elicited by Different Types of Drug-Related Cues in Heroin-Abstinent Individuals.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Psychological and neural contributions to appetite self-regulation.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Review
- Effects of cognitive load on neural and behavioral responses to smoking-cue distractors.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- The Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex Responds Preferentially to Social Interactions during Natural Viewing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
- Individual Differences in Reward and Somatosensory-Motor Brain Regions Correlate with Adiposity in Adolescents.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2016Article
- The motor way: Clinical implications of understanding and shaping actions with the motor system in autism and drug addiction.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2016Review
- In search of a human self-regulation system.Annual review of neuroscience · 2015Review
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Abstract
Do smokers simulate smoking when they see someone else smoke? For regular smokers, smoking is such a highly practiced motor skill that it often occurs automatically, without conscious awareness. Research on the brain basis of action observation has delineated a frontoparietal network that is commonly recruited when people observe, plan, or imitate actions. Here, we investigated whether this action observation network would be preferentially recruited in smokers when viewing complex smoking cues, such as those occurring in motion pictures. Seventeen right-handed smokers and 17 nonsmokers watched a popular movie while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Using a natural stimulus, such as a movie, allowed us to keep both smoking and nonsmoking participants naive to the goals of the experiment. Brain activity evoked by movie scenes of smoking was contrasted with nonsmoking control scenes that were matched for frequency and duration. Compared with nonsmokers, smokers showed greater activity in left anterior intraparietal sulcus and inferior frontal gyrus, regions involved in the simulation of contralateral hand-based gestures, when viewing smoking versus control scenes. These results demonstrate that smokers spontaneously represent the action of smoking when viewing others smoke, the consequence of which may make it more difficult to abstain from smoking.
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