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Spacing of Cue-approach Training Leads to Better Maintenance of Behavioral Change

View ORCID ProfileAkram Bakkour, View ORCID ProfileRotem Botvinik-Nezer, Neta Cohen, Ashleigh M. Hover, View ORCID ProfileRussell A. Poldrack, View ORCID ProfileTom Schonberg
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/268821
Akram Bakkour
1Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Rotem Botvinik-Nezer
2Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
3Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Neta Cohen
2Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Ashleigh M. Hover
1Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Russell A. Poldrack
1Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Tom Schonberg
1Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
3Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Abstract

The maintenance of behavioral change over the long term is essential to achieve public health goals such as combatting obesity and drug use. Previous work by our group has demonstrated a reliable shift in preferences for appetitive foods following a novel non-reinforced training paradigm. In the current studies, we tested whether distributing training trials over two consecutive days would affect preferences immediately after training as well as over time at a one-month follow-up. In four studies, three different designs and an additional pre-registered replication of one sample, we found that spacing of cue-approach training induced a shift in food choice preferences over one month. The spacing and massing schedule employed governed the long-term changes in choice behavior. Applying spacing strategies to training paradigms that target automatic processes could prove a useful tool for the long-term maintenance of health improvement goals with the development of real-world behavioral change paradigms that incorporate distributed practice principles.

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Spacing of Cue-approach Training Leads to Better Maintenance of Behavioral Change
Akram Bakkour, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Neta Cohen, Ashleigh M. Hover, Russell A. Poldrack, Tom Schonberg
bioRxiv 268821; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/268821
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Spacing of Cue-approach Training Leads to Better Maintenance of Behavioral Change
Akram Bakkour, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Neta Cohen, Ashleigh M. Hover, Russell A. Poldrack, Tom Schonberg
bioRxiv 268821; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/268821

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