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Intact general and food-specific task-switching abilities in bulimia-spectrum eating disorders.

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Prior work evaluating cognitive flexibility (i.e., the ability to alter behavior in response to environmental changes) in bulimia-spectrum eating disorders (BN-ED) has produced mixed findings, perhaps due to reliance on set-shifting paradigms that do not effectively isolate cognitive flexibility. Task-switching paradigms are more precise, but no study has examined task-switching in BN-ED. Further, no study has examined whether cognitive flexibility deficits in BN-ED are disorder-specific (e.g., confined to food-related responses). Thus, the present study re-evaluated cognitive flexibility in BN-ED using general and food-specific task-switching paradigms.

Year of Publication
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2022
Journal
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Eating behaviors
Volume
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46
Number of Pages
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101636
ISSN Number
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1471-0153
URL
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1471-0153(22)00042-3
DOI
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10.1016/j.eatbeh.2022.101636
Short Title
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Eat Behav
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