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| Suzanne HiggsSummaryAffiliation: University of Birmingham Country: UK Publications
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Memory for recent eating and its influence on subsequent food intakeSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK
Appetite 39:159-66. 2002..These results are consistent with the suggestion that memory of recent eating is an important cognitive factor influencing food intake...
Recall of recent lunch and its effect on subsequent snack intakeSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, England, UK
Physiol Behav 94:454-62. 2008..It is concluded that the inhibitory effect of recalling foods eaten at lunch on subsequent snack intake is a robust phenomenon that is related to memory of that lunch and is moderated by tendency toward dietary disinhibition...
Impairment of cognitive performance in dietary restrained women when imagining eating is not affected by anticipated consumptionSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Eat Behav 8:157-61. 2007..The results suggest that dietary restrained eaters are more reactive to food cues but that this effect is not modulated by information about post-task consumption of the food...
Cognitive influences on food intake: the effects of manipulating memory for recent eatingSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Physiol Behav 94:734-9. 2008..These data are consistent with evidence of hyperphagia in amnesic patients and laboratory animals with lesions to the hippocampus, an important substrate for learning and memory...
Cues that signal the alcohol content of a beverage and their effectiveness at altering drinking rates in young social drinkersSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 43:630-5. 2008..The aim of this study was to assess the impact of cues that signal the alcoholic strength of a beverage on drinking rate in young social drinkers...
Television watching during lunch increases afternoon snack intake of young womenSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Appetite 52:39-43. 2009..They further suggest that this effect may be related to an effect of television watching on encoding of the memory of the meal...
Differential effects of two cannabinoid receptor agonists on progressive ratio responding for food and free-feeding in ratsS Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Behav Pharmacol 16:389-93. 2005..These findings suggest important differences between the two CB1 receptor agonists in terms of their pharmacological effects...
Sensory-specific satiety is intact in amnesics who eat multiple mealsSuzanne Higgs
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B152TT, England
Psychol Sci 19:623-8. 2008..Overeating in amnesia may be due to disruption of learned control by physiological aftereffects of a recent meal or to problems utilizing internal cues relating to nutritional state...
Memory and its role in appetite regulationSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Physiol Behav 85:67-72. 2005....
Reversal of sibutramine-induced anorexia with a selective 5-HT(2C) receptor antagonistSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 214:941-7. 2011..The monoamine reuptake inhibitor sibutramine reduces food intake but the receptor subtypes mediating the effects of sibutramine on feeding remain to be clearly identified...
Cannabinoid influences on palatability: microstructural analysis of sucrose drinking after delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol, anandamide, 2-arachidonoyl glycerol and SR141716Suzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 165:370-7. 2003..The motivational changes underlying these actions remain to be determined, but may involve alterations to food palatability...
The effect of cytotoxic lesions of the hippocampus on recognition memory in the rat: effects of stimulus sizeS Higgs
Department of Psychology, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 115:1193-203. 2001....
The effect of the dopamine D2 receptor antagonist raclopride on the pattern of licking microstructure induced by midazolam in the ratS Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK
Eur J Pharmacol 409:73-80. 2000..These data point to the interdependence of benzodiazepine and dopamine substrates in the mediation of palatability...
Dietary restraint and disinhibition are associated with increased alcohol use behaviours and thoughts in young women social drinkersSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Eat Behav 8:236-43. 2007..These data suggest that a tendency towards overeating (disinhibition) combined with attempts at restriction is associated with increased alcohol use behaviours, perhaps due to a greater preoccupation with alcohol...
Aversive viscerally referred states and thirst accompanying the sating of hunger motivation by rapid digestion of glucosaccharidesDavid A Booth
School of Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Physiol Behav 102:373-81. 2011..Visceral processes shortly after a meal can create dissociable conscious states, only one of which is satiety for food...
Recall of vegetable eating affects future predicted enjoyment and choice of vegetables in British University undergraduate studentsEric Robinson
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
J Am Diet Assoc 111:1543-8. 2011..The results suggest that recall of previous eating experiences could be a potential strategy for altering food choices...
Focusing on food during lunch enhances lunch memory and decreases later snack intakeSuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England B15 2TT, UK
Appetite 57:202-6. 2011..These results suggest that enhancing meal memory by paying attention to food while eating can reduce later intake and are consistent with the suggestion that memory plays an important role in appetite control...
Benzodiazepine effects on licking responses for sodium chloride solutions in water-deprived male ratsSteven J Cooper
School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Liverpool L69 7ZA, UK
Physiol Behav 85:252-8. 2005....
Social matching of food intake and the need for social acceptanceEric Robinson
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Appetite 56:747-52. 2011..In Study 2, priming social acceptance reduced the matching effect in females. These findings suggest that desire for social acceptance may be an underlying cause of social matching of food intake...
Effect of cues associated with an alcoholic beverage on executive functionKulbir Singh Birak
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:562-9. 2010..To investigate whether alcohol-associated drink cues can elicit conditioned compensatory responses that counter alcohol's effects on cognition...
Peak and end effects on remembered enjoyment of eating in low and high restrained eatersEric Robinson
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Appetite 57:207-12. 2011..These results suggest that for unrestrained eaters key moments in eating experiences have disproportionately large influence on remembered enjoyment of eating...
Conditioned effects of caffeine on performance in humansAngela Attwood
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Physiol Behav 99:286-93. 2010..Therefore the facilitatory effects of caffeine on performance can be elicited, in the absence of drug, by previously-neutral contextual stimuli that have been paired with drug administration...
Effects of dieting status and cigarette deprivation on progressive ratio responding for cigarette puffs by young women smokersRebecca A Jenks
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
J Psychopharmacol 25:530-7. 2011..This is consistent with the suggestion that subjective and behavioural measures assess different dimensions of the rewarding effects of smoking...
Differential responsiveness to caffeine and perceived effects of caffeine in moderate and high regular caffeine consumersA S Attwood
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 190:469-77. 2007..Individual differences in responsiveness to caffeine occur even within a caffeine-consuming population, but the factors that mediate differential responsiveness remain unclear...
Effects of baclofen on feeding behaviour examined in the runwaySuzanne Higgs
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 28:405-8. 2004..The data also suggest that baclofen has complex effects on appetitive behaviour that may interfere with its effects on consumption...
Conditioned tolerance to the effects of alcohol on inhibitory control in humansKulbir Singh Birak
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 46:686-93. 2011..To test whether the repeated consumption of alcohol in a particular environment leads to the emergence of a context-specific conditioned compensatory response (CCR) that can counter alcohol's impairment of inhibitory processes...
Associations between dieting and smoking-related behaviors in young womenRebecca A Jenks
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Drug Alcohol Depend 88:291-9. 2007....
Learned liking versus inborn delight: can sweetness give sensual pleasure or is it just motivating?David A Booth
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 21:1656-63. 2010..Hence, the pleasure that adults experience during ingestion could be exclusively linked with the congenital sweetness reflex that sends mother's milk down an infant's throat...
Acute psychomotor, subjective and physiological responses to smoking in depressed outpatient smokers and matched controlsDebra Malpass
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 190:363-72. 2007..Examining depressed smokers' responses to smoking will help determine the role of depression in maintaining cigarette smoking...
Evidence for early opioid modulation of licking responses to sucrose and intralipid: a microstructural analysis in the ratS Higgs
Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 139:342-55. 1998....
Dietary restraint and US devaluation predict evaluative learningJeffrey M Brunstrom
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TN, England
Physiol Behav 85:524-35. 2005..Evidence that a sweet US can bring about a decrease in liking has not been reported previously. One interpretation is that negative beliefs and attitudes can contaminate the representation of the US during training...
