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Dummel, Sebastian and Huebner, Ronald (2017). Too Tasty to Be Ignored How Individual Food Preferences Affect Selective Attention. Exp. Psychol., 64 (5). S. 338 - 346. GOTTINGEN: HOGREFE & HUBER PUBLISHERS. ISSN 2190-5142

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Abstract

Recent research has shown that even non-salient stimuli (colored circles) can gain attentional weight, when they have been loaded with some value through previous reward learning. The present study examined such value-based attentional weighting with intrinsically rewarding food stimuli. Different snacks were assumed to have different values for people due to individual food preferences. Participants indicated their preferences toward various snacks and then performed a flanker task with these snacks: they had to categorize a target snack as either sweet or salty; irrelevant flanker snacks were either compatible or incompatible with the target category. Results of a linear mixed-effects model show that the effect of flanker compatibility on participants' performance (response times) increased with the participants' preference toward the flanking snacks. This shows, for the first time, that attentional weightings in a flanker task with naturalistic stimuli (snacks) are modulated by participants' preferences toward the flankers.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Dummel, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Huebner, Ronald UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-218181
DOI:	10.1027/1618-3169/a000373
Journal or Publication Title:	Exp. Psychol.
Volume:	64
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 338 - 346
Date:	2017
Publisher:	HOGREFE & HUBER PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	GOTTINGEN
ISSN:	2190-5142
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language STIMULI; CAPTURE Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21818