Department of Psychology Colloquium - Dr. Todd Watson, Lewis & Clark College
Thursday, September 26, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Psychology 136
This event is open only to current Reed students, faculty, and staff.
“Right on Cue: ERP Correlates of Processing Alcohol and Food Images”
It has been suggested that both alcohol addiction and obesity are associated with dysfunction in brain circuits involved in reward processing and cognitive control. Furthermore, alterations in neurocognitive processes involved in attending to self-relevant, self-salient environmental cues (e.g., sights or smells) may be of particular importance in both disorders. This talk will present data from three studies examining the event-related potential (ERP) correlates of viewing distracting food or alcoholic beverage cues in several populations including individuals with alcoholism, college-aged binge drinkers, and individuals who may be more likely to engage in impulsive eating. Across studies, we found that processing salient cues (e.g. food vs. nonfood, alcoholic beverage vs. nonalcoholic beverage) elicits dissociable patterns of cortical activity and that the magnitude of these effects appears to be related to a number of clinical, psychological, and cognitive variables.
If you are interested in having dinner with the speaker (Psy 102) please sign up on the list outside of Rm. 116
For more information, contact Tim Hackenberg.
Submitted by Joan Meyer.
Posted on Sep 16, 2013
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