Assessing and Retraining Automatic-Action Tendencies in Heavy Drinkers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinout W. Wiers ◽  
Mike Rinck
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Assessing and retraining automatic action tendencies in heavy drinkers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinout Wiers ◽  
Mike Rinck ◽  
Robert Kordts ◽  
Esther Van den Wildenberg ◽  
Fritz Strack
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

scholarly journals Retraining Automatic Action Tendencies Changes Alcoholic Patients’ Approach Bias for Alcohol and Improves Treatment Outcome

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinout W. Wiers ◽  
Carolin Eberl ◽  
Mike Rinck ◽  
Eni S. Becker ◽  
Johannes Lindenmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Approach Bias ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Retraining automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol in hazardous drinkers

Addiction ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinout W. Wiers ◽  
Mike Rinck ◽  
Robert Kordts ◽  
Katrijn Houben ◽  
Fritz Strack
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

scholarly journals The effect of modifying automatic action tendencies on overt avoidance behaviors.

Emotion ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader Amir ◽  
Jennie M. Kuckertz ◽  
Sadia Najmi
Keyword(s):  
Avoidance Behaviors ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Retraining automatic action tendencies in obesity

2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Mehl ◽  
Lara Mueller-Wieland ◽  
David Mathar ◽  
Annette Horstmann
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

scholarly journals Improving emotional-action control by targeting long-range phase-amplitude neuronal coupling

eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Bramson ◽  
Hanneke EM den Ouden ◽  
Ivan Toni ◽  
Karin Roelofs
Keyword(s):  
Action Control ◽  
Avoidance Task ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Neural Noise ◽  
Phase Amplitude ◽  
Emotional Approach ◽  
Coupling Mechanisms ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Control over emotional action tendencies is essential for everyday interactions. This cognitive function fails occasionally during socially challenging situations, and systematically in social psychopathologies. We delivered dual-site phase-coupled brain stimulation to facilitate theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling between frontal regions known to implement that form of control, while neuropsychologically healthy human male participants were challenged to control their automatic action tendencies in a social–emotional approach/avoidance-task. Participants had increased control over their emotional action tendencies, depending on the relative phase and dose of the intervention. Concurrently measured fMRI effects of task and stimulation indicated that the intervention improved control by increasing the efficacy of anterior prefrontal inhibition over the sensorimotor cortex. This enhancement of emotional action control provides causal evidence for phase-amplitude coupling mechanisms guiding action selection during emotional-action control. Generally, the finding illustrates the potential of physiologically-grounded interventions aimed at reducing neural noise in cerebral circuits where communication relies on phase-amplitude coupling.

Neural Control of Emotional Actions in Response to Affective Vocalizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 977-988
Author(s):  
Saskia B. J. Koch ◽  
Alessandra Galli ◽  
Inge Volman ◽  
Reinoud Kaldewaij ◽  
Ivan Toni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Control ◽  
Neural Circuits ◽  
Action Control ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Posterior Insula ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Social–emotional cues, such as affective vocalizations and emotional faces, automatically elicit emotional action tendencies. Adaptive social–emotional behavior depends on the ability to control these automatic action tendencies. It remains unknown whether neural control over automatic action tendencies is supramodal or relies on parallel modality-specific neural circuits. Here, we address this largely unexplored issue in humans. We consider neural circuits supporting emotional action control in response to affective vocalizations, using an approach–avoidance task known to reliably index control over emotional action tendencies elicited by emotional faces. We isolate supramodal neural contributions to emotional action control through a conjunction analysis of control-related neural activity evoked by auditory and visual affective stimuli, the latter from a previously published data set obtained in an independent sample. We show that the anterior pFC (aPFC) supports control of automatic action tendencies in a supramodal manner, that is, triggered by either emotional faces or affective vocalizations. When affective vocalizations are heard and emotional control is required, the aPFC supports control through negative functional connectivity with the posterior insula. When emotional faces are seen and emotional control is required, control relies on the same aPFC territory downregulating the amygdala. The findings provide evidence for a novel mechanism of emotional action control with a hybrid hierarchical architecture, relying on a supramodal node (aPFC) implementing an abstract goal by modulating modality-specific nodes (posterior insula, amygdala) involved in signaling motivational significance of either affective vocalizations or faces.

scholarly journals Effects of go/no-go training on food-related action tendencies, liking and choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 210666
Author(s):  
Loukia Tzavella ◽  
Natalia S. Lawrence ◽  
Katherine S. Button ◽  
Elizabeth A. Hart ◽  
Natalie M. Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Avoidance Task ◽  
Training Effects ◽  
Control Food ◽  
Inhibition Control ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies ◽  
Healthy Participants ◽  
Complementary Mechanism

Inhibitory control training effects on behaviour (e.g. ‘healthier’ food choices) can be driven by changes in affective evaluations of trained stimuli, and theoretical models indicate that changes in action tendencies may be a complementary mechanism. In this preregistered study, we investigated the effects of food-specific go/no-go training on action tendencies, liking and impulsive choices in healthy participants. In the training task, energy-dense foods were assigned to one of three conditions: 100% inhibition (no-go), 0% inhibition (go) or 50% inhibition (control). Automatic action tendencies and liking were measured pre- and post-training for each condition. We found that training did not lead to changes in approach bias towards trained foods (go and no-go relative to control), but we warrant caution in interpreting this finding as there are important limitations to consider for the employed approach–avoidance task. There was only anecdotal evidence for an effect on food liking, but there was evidence for contingency learning during training, and participants were on average less likely to choose a no-go food compared to a control food after training. We discuss these findings from both a methodological and theoretical standpoint and propose that the mechanisms of action behind training effects be investigated further.

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