Education
MSc in Research in Behaviour and Cognition, Psychology Degree
Research interests
The main research topic of my PhD focuses on better understanding the reward mechanisms involved in eating behavior, as well as their consequences and implications in both clinical and non-clinical populations.
Publications
M Ballestero-Arnau, M Moreno-Sánchez, T Cunillera (2021). Food is special by itself: Neither valence, arousal, food appeal, nor caloric content modulate the attentional bias induced by food images. Appetite 156, 104984
M Ballestero-Arnau, B Rodriguez-Herreros, N Nuno-Bermudez, … (2021). Fasting reduces inhibitory and attentional control of food-related cues. bioRxiv
Last publications
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Ballestero-Arnau, M., Rodríguez-Herreros, B., Nuño-Bermúdez, N., Cunillera, T. (2023). Sporadic fasting reduces attentional control without altering overall executive function in a binary classification task. Physiology & Behavior. 260:114065
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García-Arch, J., Ballestero-Arnau, M., Pérez-Hoyas, L., Giaiotti, F. (2022). Disproven but still believed: The role of information and individual differences in the prediction of topic-related pseudoscience acceptance. Applied Cognitive Psychology