Atención selectiva emocional en mujeres con obesidad y normopesas
2012
The aim of the current study was to investigate
the emotional processing style in women of
obese and normal weight. In an implicit memory
task, 16 obese and 16 normal weight females were
assessed using a word completion task. The task involved
negative emotional, neutral and neutral with
sound (750 Hz) words in order to have an additional
distracting signal. In the study phase, participants
had to rate how agreeable or disagreeable they regarded
each word. In the test phase, obese patients
completed emotional words faster. On the contrary,
they were slower than controls in completing the
neutral words with sound. Results show a tendency
in obese women towards automatic and involuntary
processing of emotional information with negative
valence as well as an attentional bias for threatrelated
information. This work reveals the differential
influence of attention and implicit memory in the
processing of emotional information in obese patients.
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