Dr Elanor Hinton

Research summary

Research interests

Keywords:

• Eating behaviour
• Motivation
• Wanting and liking
• Satiety
• Expectations
• Portion size
• fMRI
• MEG
• Brain ‘reward’ regions
• Individual differences

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Biography

I graduated with a BA(Hons) Psychology from the University of Sheffield in 1998. I completed an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Imperial College, which included a psychopharmacological project regarding the effect of the D2 receptor antagonist sulpiride on working memory and learning in normal volunteers. This led to studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge with Professor Tony Holland at the Section of Developmental Psychiatry and Professor Adrian Owen at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences unit (2001-2005). My PhD was entitled “The neural basis of hunger and satiety in Prader-Willi syndrome”.

Following my PhD, I moved to ...

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Recent publications

• Wilkinson, LL, Hinton, EC, Fay, SH, Rogers, PJ & Brunstrom, JM 2013, ‘The 'variety effect' is anticipated in meal planning’. Appetite, vol 60., pp. 175-9
• Hinton, EC, Brunstrom, JM, Fay, SH, Wilkinson, LL, Ferriday, D, Rogers, PJ & Wijk, Rd 2013, ‘Using photography in 'The Restaurant of the Future'. A useful way to assess portion selection and plate cleaning?’. Appetite, vol 63., pp. 31-5

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