title: Habituation patterns to colour naming of eating-related stimuli in anorexics and non-clinical controls.
abstract: The current study was an investigation into intra-session changes in the pattern of Stroop colour-naming impairments with body shape-related words and food-related words. The subject pool comprised anorexic women and a control group of non-clinically disordered women. The results indicated that anorexic women show greater colour-naming decrements that non-disordered controls for both types of eating-related words. Stroop interference significantly decreased across the course of the experiment with the body-shape words for the anorexic subjects, thereby indicating habituation to the semantic content of those words. There was no comparable process of habituation observed with the food-related words.
authors.affiliation: AFRC Institute of Food Research, Whiteknights, Reading, UK.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: McKenna
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: De Silva
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D003118:Color Perception; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary