Will work less for food: Go/No-Go training decreases the reinforcing value of high-caloric food

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Consistently inhibiting responses to palatable food stimuli increases motor suppression for those stimuli and reduces their hedonic value, suggesting a close link between motor inhibition and food reward. The current study aimed to investigate whether GNG training also reduces the motivational, reinforcing value of palatable, high-calorie food. Participants completed either GNG training for high-calorie food or a control task. This was followed by a Concurrent Schedules Task (CST) to measure the reinforcing value of high-calorie food. As hypothesized, participants in the GNG condition showed reduced high-caloric food reinforcement, as indexed by the number of key presses participants were willing to execute to obtain the food, compared to the control condition. This difference between GNG and control, however, was only significant when the response requirement to obtain high-calorie food was high. These results suggest that GNG training not only reduces hedonic food value but also the motivational, reinforcing value of food.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/ZFCIIG
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.08.002
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/ZFCIIG
Provenance
Creator Houben, Katrijn ORCID logo; Giesen, Janneke C.A.H. (ORCID: 0000-0002-8146-862X)
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Houben, Katrijn; faculty data manager FPN
Publication Year 2018
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
OpenAccess false
Contact Houben, Katrijn (Maastricht University); faculty data manager FPN (Maastricht University)
Representation
Resource Type experimental data; Dataset
Format application/x-spss-syntax; application/x-spss-sav
Size 9911; 17003
Version 1.1
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences