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Food Catches the Eye but Not for Everyone: A BMI–Contingent Attentional Bias in Rapid Detection of Nutriments

An organism's survival depends crucially on its ability to detect and acquire nutriment. Attention circuits interact with cognitive and motivational systems to facilitate detection of salient sensory events in the environment. Here we show that the human attentional system is tuned to detect fo...

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Autores principales: Nummenmaa, Lauri, Hietanen, Jari K., Calvo, Manuel G., Hyönä, Jukka
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3095600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21603657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019215