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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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Main Authors: Nummenmaa, Lauri, Hietanen, Jari K., Calvo, Manuel G., Hyönä, Jukka
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3095600/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21603657
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019215
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