Trial reportAppetite2017
Training response inhibition to reduce food consumption: Mechanisms, stimulus specificity and appropriate training protocols.
Trial report in Appetite, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04450524 (Changing Eating Behavior Using Cognitive Training), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Changing Eating Behavior Using Cognitive Training: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Inhibitory control training and unhealthy behaviours: a meta-analysis testing short and long- term effects in clinical and at-risk populations.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
- Implicit bias to food and body cues in eating disorders: a systematic review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Pooled it
- Reduction in sugar drink valuation and consumption with gamified executive control training.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- The effects of response inhibition training following binge memory retrieval in young adults binge eaters: a randomised-controlled experimental study.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Does alcohol cue inhibitory control training survive a context shift?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Trial
- A randomised controlled trial examining the efficacy of smoking-related response inhibition training in smokers: a study protocol.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- How does body mass influence inhibitory control? Event-related potentials evidence across the full BMI spectrum.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Virtual reality-based inhibition training influences food-related responses: no additional effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Enhancing cognitive and motor performance through mental training: The interplay between temporal preparation, inhibition and autonomic arousal.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of an inhibitory control training to reduce binge eating behaviours: study protocol of the randomized controlled proof-of-principle MIND BINGES trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Shared and distinct alterations in brain morphology in children with ADHD and obesity: Reduced cortical surface area in ADHD and thickness in overweight/obesity.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Response inhibition training as an intervention to modify liking and wanting for foods based on energy density: a proof of concept study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Biobehavioral susceptibility for obesity in childhood: Behavioral, genetic and neuroimaging studies of appetite.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Explicit and Implicit Devaluation Effects of Food-Specific Response Inhibition Training.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Effects of go/no-go training on food-related action tendencies, liking and choice.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Modifying food items valuation and weight with gamified executive control training.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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- A Systematic Review Of Implicit Attitudes And Their Neural Correlates In Eating Behaviour.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Impulsive Sports Betting: The Effects of Food or Substance Consumption.Journal of gambling studies · 2020Article
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Abstract
Training individuals to inhibit their responses towards unhealthy foods has been shown to reduce food intake relative to a control group. Here we aimed to further explore these effects by investigating the role of stimulus devaluation, training protocol, and choice of control group. Restrained eaters received either inhibition or control training using a modified version of either the stop-signal or go/no-go task. Following training we measured implicit attitudes towards food (Study 1) and food consumption (Studies 1 and 2). In Study 1 we used a modified stop-signal training task with increased demands on top-down control (using a tracking procedure and feedback to maintain competition between the stop and go processes). With this task, we found no evidence for an effect of training on implicit attitudes or food consumption, with Bayesian inferential analyses revealing substantial evidence for the null hypothesis. In Study 2 we removed the feedback in the stop-signal training to increase the rate of successful inhibition and revealed a significant effect of both stop-signal and go/no-go training on food intake (compared to double-response and go training, respectively) with a greater difference in consumption in the go/no-go task, compared with the stop-signal task. However, results from an additional passive control group suggest that training effects could be partly caused by increased consumption in the go control group whereas evidence for reduced consumption in the inhibition groups was inconclusive. Our findings therefore support evidence that inhibition training tasks with higher rates of inhibition accuracy are more effective, but prompt caution for interpreting the efficacy of laboratory-based inhibition training as an intervention for behaviour change.
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