Sentences with phrase «visual food cues»

Now a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues.

In two newly - published studies, the researchers examined — with unprecedented resolution — the brain circuits responsible for the differences in the way the brain responds to visual food cues during hunger versus satiety.

Not exact matches

Health - conscious people will choose healthy foods anyway — but visual cues, rather than words, can help those who are less health - conscious to make better food choices, researchers say.

The mice struggled to pay attention and remember visual cues associated with food.

The technology may one day lead to new imaging instruments and microscopes for use in medicine and scientific research, such as devices for detecting early signs of skin cancer or early visual cues for food spoilage.

At other times, food was put into different arms of the maze but with visual cues to show its hiding place, which, in humans, requires conscious thought.

The authors theorize that clusters of holes may be evolutionarily indicative of contamination and disease — visual cues for rotten or moldy food or skin marred by an infection.

Scientists examined the behaviour of dogs in response to emotionally significant images and sounds, and found that mouth licking in domestic dogs is not simply a response to food or uncertainty, but appears to be used as a signal to try to communicate with humans in response to visual cues of anger.

So researchers tested whether visual cues of healthful foods could increase consumption at a grade school with 800 students.

Surprisingly, white - tailed eagles never detected metal fragments in their food by visual cues only, as might be expected from the extraordinary visual acuity of eagles.

«Visual information about food cues is processed in sequential stages.

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In food - restricted mice, just being shown the visual cue associated with the liquid treat provoked a strong response in sets of neurons in three different brain areas.

In one test for working memory — the ability to use recent experience to make decisions — the mice were trained to find food in one arm of a maze based on a visual cue.

The available evidence suggests that they trigger an alarm circuit that makes the brain more attentive to important visual cues — those to do with danger or food, for instance.

The shake format can, however, make it easy to overshoot caloric needs as unlike with food, there's no visual portion cues.