Courtney Neal

Biographic Data

ID6256807
NAMECourtney Neal
GIVEN NAMESCourtney
FAMILY NAMENeal
SIGNATURENEAL C
AFFILIATIONSNewcastle University
ORCID0000-0001-5507-4849
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Including fruit juice as one of the 5-a-day

    Open AccessCourtney Neal, Kirsten Brandt et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025

  • The daily experience of hunger in UK females with and without food insecurity

    Open AccessCourtney Neal, Gillian V Pepper et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025Cited by: 3References: 32

    Food insecurity (FI) is associated with increased mortality risk, depression, and obesity in females in high-income countries, but causal mechanisms remain unclear. FI is often assumed to lead to increased levels of hunger. However, quantitative evidence describing daily experiences of hunger in FI is lacking. Our pre-registered study used ecological momentary assessment to capture experiences of hunger in two groups of UK-based females: those ex…

  • The daily experience of hunger in UK females with and without food insecurity

    Courtney Neal, Gillian Pepper et al.PREPRINT2024

    Food insecurity (FI) is associated with obesity in women in high-income countries, but causal mechanisms remain unclear. FI is often assumed to lead to increased levels of hunger. However, quantitative evidence describing daily experiences of hunger in FI is lacking. Our pre-registered study used ecological momentary assessment to capture experiences of hunger in two groups of UK-based women: those experiencing FI (N = 143) and those experiencing…

  • No effect of hunger on the memory of food images and prices

    Courtney Neal, Gillian Pepper et al.PREPRINT2024

    Food acquisition is an adaptive problem resolved via both physiological and psychological processes. Hunger could serve as a coordinating mechanism for these processes. When hunger increases, it may be beneficial to shift cognitive resources away from other adaptive problems and towards functions that increase the chances of acquiring food, such as memory for food information. However, there is limited research exploring the impacts of hunger on …

  • Hungry, stressed, or both? An ecological momentary assessment in food secure and insecure populations

    Open AccessCourtney Neal, Gillian Pepper et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024

  • Hungry, stressed, or both? An ecological momentary assessment in food secure and insecure populations

    Open AccessCourtney Neal, Gillian Pepper et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024

  • No effect of hunger on attentional capture by food cues

    Courtney Neal, Gillian Pepper et al.PREPRINT2023

    Hunger is a powerful driver of eating behaviour. However, the relationship between hunger and food-related cognition remains poorly understood. Previous research found that hunger increased the ability of food cues to capture attention in a US student sample (N=23; Piech, Pastorino, & Zald, Appet., 54, p579-582, 2010). We conducted online (N=29) and in-person (N=28) replications of this study with British participants, using the same stimuli sets…

  • No effect of hunger on attentional capture by food cues

    Open AccessCourtney Neal, Gillian V Pepper et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023References: 23

    Food cues potently capture human attention, and it has been suggested that hunger increases their propensity to do so. However, the evidence for such hunger-related attentional biases is weak. We focus on one recent study that did show significantly greater attentional capture by food cues when participants were hungry, using an Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) task [Piech, Pastorino, & Zald, 2010. Appetite, 54, 579-582]. We conducted online (N…

  • No effect of hunger on attentional capture by visual food cues

    Open AccessCourtney Neal, D Nettle et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023