Food catches the eye but not for everyone: A BMI-contingent attentional bias in rapid detection of nutriments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a,b   Hietanen, Jari K ^c   Calvo, Manuel G ^d   Hyönä, Jukka ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; RISK FACTOR; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER; WEIGHT GAIN; ATTENTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ATTENTION; BODY MASS INDEX; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956148113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019215     Document Type: Article

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