Sentences with phrase «understand food cues»

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I was hoping that Macks would take the cue from his sisters» fun and excitement with trying new foods, but he's still a little young to understand.

«Our goal is to understand how specific brain circuits bias attention to food cues, as these biases are powerful drivers of food consumption,» said corresponding author Mark L. Andermann, PhD, of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

But while those studies have suggested that animals are able to understand what others see — giving them an advantage in competing for food, for example — they rely on the test subjects» ability to see another's head or eyes, providing so - called «gaze cues.»

Scientists are working to understand what hormonal and physiological cues in the body lead the brain to respond to food emotionally.