title: What Is Trained During Food Go/No-Go Training? A Review Focusing on Mechanisms and a Research Agenda.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  During food go/no-go training, people consistently withhold responses toward no-go food items. We discuss how food go/no-go training may change people's behavior toward no-go food items by comparing three accounts: (a) the training strengthens 'top-down' inhibitory control over food-related responses, (b) the training creates automatic 'bottom-up' associations between no-go food items and stopping responses, and (c) the training leads to devaluation of no-go food items.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Go/no-go training can reduce intake of food and choices for food and facilitate short-term weight loss. It appears unlikely that food go/no-go training strengthens top-down inhibitory control. There is some evidence suggesting the training could create automatic stop associations. There is strong evidence suggesting go/no-go training reduces evaluations of no-go food items.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Food go/no-go training can change behavior toward food and evaluation of food items. To advance knowledge, more research is needed on the underlying mechanisms of the training, the role of attention during go/no-go training, and on when effects generalize to untrained food items.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Harm
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Veling
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
authors.forename: Natalia S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Guido M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: van Koningsbruggen
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands.|Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rob W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Holland
keywords: Eating behavior; Food choice; Go/no-go; Impulsive; Inhibition; Training