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Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Sponsor: Temple University
Summary
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.
Official title: Characterizing Top-down Dimensions of Appetite Self-regulation Among Preschoolers
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Years - 6 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
125
Start Date
2023-10-05
Completion Date
2025-12-31
Last Updated
2025-04-10
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Executive functioning observational tasks
Interventions take place solely at the measurement level, where children will be seen in observational tasks of general executive functioning and executive functioning around eating in which various food and non-food stimuli are presented and children's responses to task instructions are recorded.
Locations (1)
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States