Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Sponsored by Temple University
About this study
Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.
Appetite self-regulation (ASR) has been described as involving children's use of eating-specific, "top-down" cognitive processes to moderate "bottom-up" biological drives to eat. Much of the research to date on ASR has focused on the role of bottom-up drives in shaping children's behavioral susceptibility to obesity. Alternatively, little is known about the cognitive-developmental processes that shape children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation during early childhood. The goal of this exploratory investigation is to produce rigorous evidence of cognitive developmental influences on healthy eating behaviors and weight status during preschool through the development of new measures of top-down ASR. Participants will be 125 preschoolers and their primary caregiver. E…
Where this study is enrolling
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Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Who can participate
Inclusion criteria
- ✓1. Child ages 4 to 6 years of age
- ✓2. Caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare
- ✓3. Caregiver legal guardian
Exclusion criteria
- ✕1. Caregiver \<18 years of age
- ✕2. Child major food allergies
- ✕3. Child medication use, developmental disability, or medical conditions known to affect food intake and/or growth; color blindness
- ✕4. Child in foster care
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