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Reduction of vividness and associated craving in personalized food imageryAndrew McClelland
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
J Clin Psychol 62:355-65. 2006..Individual differences in imaging ability and habitual food craving did not impact upon their effectiveness, indicating that visuo-spatial tasks can be successfully used to reduce food cravings across a range of people...- Preoccupation with detail contributes to poor abstraction in women with anorexia nervosaMelanie Tokley
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:734-41. 2007..Thus, poor abstract thinking in AN appears to be at least partly attributable to a field-independent cognitive style, characterised by a bias towards focusing on detail at the expense of considering the gestalt... - Dynamic visual noise reduces confidence in short-term memory for visual informationEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia
Cogn Process 13:183-8. 2012..We conclude that DVN does distort visual representations in short-term memory, but standard coarse-grained recall measures are insensitive to these distortions... - Preliminary evidence for a role for impulsivity in cognitive disinhibition in bulimia nervosaEva Kemps
Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 32:515-21. 2010.... - Attentional bias for craving-related (chocolate) food cuesEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:425-33. 2009..The findings have important theoretical and practical implications... - Competing visual and olfactory imagery tasks suppress craving for coffeeEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:43-50. 2009..Imagery techniques in the visual or olfactory domain could provide a useful adjunct to the behavioral regime of caffeine fading for consumers who are trying to quit caffeine use or reduce their intake... - Food cravings consume limited cognitive resourcesEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 5001
J Exp Psychol Appl 14:247-54. 2008..In support of Tiffany's model, our results show that habitual food cravers direct limited cognitive resources to craving-related cues, at the cost of competing cognitive demands... - Modality-specific imagery reduces cravings for food: an application of the elaborated intrusion theory of desire to food cravingEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
J Exp Psychol Appl 13:95-104. 2007..Thus, imagery techniques in the visual or olfactory domain hold promise for treating problematic cravings in disordered eating populations... - Concurrent visuo-spatial processing reduces food cravings in prescribed weight-loss dietersEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:177-86. 2008..Thus, dynamic visual noise may provide a useful tool for controlling problematic cravings in clinically overweight or obese individuals who are actively trying to lose weight... - Reducing the vividness and emotional impact of distressing autobiographical memories: the importance of modality-specific interferenceEva Kemps
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Memory 15:412-22. 2007..Such modality-specific dual-task interference could usefully contribute to the treatment and management of intrusive distressing images in both clinical and non-clinical settings... - Comparison of adult age differences in verbal and visuo-spatial memory: the importance of 'pure', parallel and validated measuresEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:341-56. 2006..They also emphasize the importance of using 'pure', parallel and validated measures of verbal and visuo-spatial memory in memory ageing research... - Working memory performance and preoccupying thoughts in female dieters: evidence for a selective central executive impairmentEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Br J Clin Psychol 44:357-66. 2005.... - Chocolate cravings are susceptible to visuo-spatial interferenceEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Eat Behav 6:101-7. 2005..Such techniques may be particularly useful in populations for whom eating problems are triggered by chocolate craving... - Reduction of food cravings through concurrent visuospatial processingEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Int J Eat Disord 36:31-40. 2004..Two experiments adopted a working memory approach to evaluate the effectiveness of visuospatial tasks as a technique for reducing food cravings... - Visuo-spatial processing in Parkinson's disease: evidence for diminished visuo-spatial sketch pad and central executive resourcesEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, G P O Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 11:181-6. 2005..The impact of the concurrent tasks varied with disease severity, with the central executive deficit prominent at disease onset, but the visuo-spatial sketch pad deficit becoming apparent only in the moderate stages of the illness... - Relationship between dieting to lose weight and the functioning of the central executiveEva Kemps
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Appetite 45:287-94. 2005..It was concluded that weight-loss dieting has a relatively global impact on central executive functioning and thus has wide-ranging cognitive consequences... - Saccharide effects on cognition and well-being in middle-aged adults: a randomized controlled trialTalitha Best
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Dev Neuropsychol 35:66-80. 2010..The potential for these nutrients to optimize cognitive function and well-being in older adults warrants ongoing investigation... - The selective impact of chocolate craving on visuospatial working memoryMarika Tiggemann
Flinders University, Australia
Appetite 55:44-8. 2010..These findings have practical implications in that visuospatial memory plays an important role in many everyday behaviours... - Components of attentional bias for food cues among restrained eatersSarah Hollitt
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Appetite 54:309-13. 2010..Thus restrained eaters show a heightened vigilance for food cues, but no slower disengagement from such cues... - A role for dietary saccharide intake in cognitive performanceTalitha Best
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Nutr Neurosci 10:113-20. 2007..The current study investigated the relationship between dietary intake of saccharides and cognitive performance... - Effects of hunger and visuo-spatial interference on imagery-induced food cravingsDanielle Steel
School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Appetite 46:36-40. 2006..Thus concurrent visuo-spatial processing may offer a useful technique for treating problematic food cravings that are predominantly psychological in origin, as well as those that are hunger-driven... - The nature of imagery processes underlying food cravingsKirsty Harvey
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Australia
Br J Health Psychol 10:49-56. 2005..Hence concurrent tasks that load the visuospatial sketch pad of working memory can be used to reduce food cravings. The findings have potential application in the treatment of craving episodes in clinical populations... - Association between dietary saccharide intake and self-reported memory performance in middle-aged adultsTalitha Best
School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
Br J Nutr 101:93-9. 2009..Thus, longer-term intakes of saccharides through the usual diet may be positively related to perceived memory performance in mid-life... - The effect of self-initiated weight-loss dieting on working memory: the role of preoccupying cognitionsLouise Vreugdenburg
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Australia
Appetite 41:291-300. 2003..Dieters reported higher levels of preoccupying cognitions which mediated the relationship between dieting status and functioning of the central executive and phonological loop, and the phonological store in particular... - Effects of saccharides on brain function and cognitive performanceTalitha Best
School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Nutr Rev 63:409-18. 2005..Because the effects of saccharide supplementation on cognitive performance are likely to be subtle, future investigations will face various methodological challenges, not the least of which is the need for sensitive outcome measures... - Insensitivity of visual short-term memory to irrelevant visual informationJackie Andrade
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK
Q J Exp Psychol A 55:753-74. 2002..Visual working memory may not be functionally analogous to verbal working memory, and different cognitive processes may underlie visual short-term memory and visual imagery... - Working memory components of the Corsi blocks taskAndre Vandierendonck
Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Br J Psychol 95:57-79. 2004..The results are discussed within the context of the working-memory model of Baddeley and Hitch (1974)... - Response selection involves executive control: evidence from the selective interference paradigmArnaud Szmalec
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 B Ghent, Belgium
Mem Cognit 33:531-41. 2005....