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Record W4410427481 · doi:10.1162/imag.a.28

Neural correlates of approach–avoidance tendencies toward physical activity and sedentary stimuli: An MRI study

2025· article· en· W4410427481 on OpenAlex
Boris Cheval, Léonardo Ceravolo, Ophelia Zimmermann, Kinga Iglói, David Sander, Peter van Ruitenbeek, Matthieu P. Boisgontier

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Bibliographic record

VenueImaging Neuroscience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicBehavioral Health and Interventions
Canadian institutionsInstitut du Savoir MontfortBruyèreUniversity of Ottawa
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversité de GenèveMitacsCanada Foundation for InnovationSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungNational Science Foundation
KeywordsNeural correlates of consciousnessPsychologyPhysical activitySedentary behaviorCognitive psychologyPhysical medicine and rehabilitationNeuroscienceMedicineCognition

Abstract

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Automatic tendencies toward physical activity and sedentary stimuli are involved in the regulation of physical activity behavior. However, the brain regions underlying these automatic tendencies remain largely unknown. Here, we used an approach-avoidance task and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 42 healthy young adults to investigate whether cortical and subcortical brain regions underpinning reward processing and executive function are associated with these tendencies. At the behavioral level, results showed more errors when avoiding sedentary stimuli (i.e., avatars in a sitting position) than physical activity stimuli (i.e., avatars in a running position). At the brain level, avoiding sedentary stimuli was associated with more activation of the motor control network (dorsolateral-prefrontal cortex, primary and secondary motor cortices, somatosensory cortex). In addition, increased activation of the bilateral parahippocampal gyrus and local hypertrophy of the right hippocampus were associated with a stronger tendency to approach sedentary stimuli. Together, these results suggest that avoiding sedentary stimuli requires higher levels of behavioral control than avoiding physical activity stimuli.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.469

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.083
GPT teacher head0.428
Teacher spread0.345 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it