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Eating is fundamental to survival and well-being and already at the dawn of experimental psychology the role of food in learning processes was recognized in seminal works of Pavlov and Skinner. In modern society, the innate urge to eat is often overridden by the abundance of nutrients. In this contest eating disorders are constantly increasing and difficult to treat, thus neuroscientists have taken a renewed interest in the study of eating behaviour.
The aim of this symposium is to offer an updated view on the understanding of complex relationship between reward value, inhibitory-control, multisensory-integration and decision-making as functions of eating self-regulation. The speakers will discuss original data of on-going research conducted with behavioral, electrophysiological and functional connectivity methods both in healthy normal-weight participants and patients affected by eating disorders.
In the first talk Dr. Valentina Bianco will present behavioural evidence showing how the reward value of observed food stimuli affects motor performance in normal-weight participants and in individuals with obesity.
The presentation of Prof. Giulia Mattavelli will concern the electrophysiological correlates of implicit food attitudes and risky decision-making involving both food and monetary rewards.
The talk of Dr. Gerardo Salvato will be focused on the neurocognitive multisensory integration deficits contributing to disorders of the “corporeal" and “deciding” self in eating disoders.
Finally, Dr. Silvia Picazio will illustrate new evidence from patients with anorexia nervosa compared to healthy-participants regarding food-related inhibitory control and the specific role of fronto-cerebellar networks in these processes.
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