Psychobiology of Food Choice and Eating Behaviour - Memory, food choice and eating behaviour
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Theories of memory: components long-term memory
What are the three types of memory?
- Explicit memory
- conscious effort to recover information
- Implicit memory
- availability of information without conscious effort
- Procedural memory
- how tasks are carried out (muscle memory)
- from a conscious list of facts to an automatic/unconscious performance
- makes it difficult to share procedural knowledge
How does memory regulate appetite?
Evidence in amnesic patients:
2 amnesic patients, 8 controls, 3 measurements
- Multiple meal-eating
- Liking
- Taste intact?
- Sensory-specific satiety
- intact
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How does memory regulate appetite?
Evidence in healthy patients:
You can do sth at lunch(1), at the snack part (2) or in the interval time(3) during a study
(2) Mindless vs mindfull eating and food intake memory for recent eating
- Memory for recent eating affects subsequent intake
- Not memory for meals in general
How to measure food-related memory
- immediate/short-term vs delayed/long-term
- explicit vs implicit -> overt vs covert measures
- sensory domain
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