Effects of hunger and calorie content on visual awareness of food stimuli
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21284074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tommaso Ciorli (0000-0003-0979-5172, University of Turin), Myrto Dimakopoulou (University of Turin), Leonardo Trombetti (University of Turin), Federica Gini (0000-0003-3427-3747, University of Trento), Lorenzo Pia (0000-0002-0360-3152, Neuroscience Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 244 |
| Pages | 104192 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Psychologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6918 • E-ISSN: 1873-6297 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104192 |
| PMID | 38377873 |
| OpenAlex | W4391946022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 50 |
Calorie content and hunger are two fundamental cues acting upon the processing of visually presented food items. However, whether and to which extent they affect visual awareness is still an open question. Here, high- and low-calorie food images administered to hungry or satiated participants were confronted in a breaking-Continuous Flash Suppression paradigm (Experiment 1), measuring the time required to access to visual awareness, and in a Binocular Rivalry paradigm (Experiment 2), quantifying the dominance time in visual awareness. Experiment 1 showed that high-calorie food accessed faster visual awareness, but mostly in satiated participants. Experiment 2 indicated that high-calorie food dominated longer visual awareness, regardless the degree of hunger. We argued that the unconscious advantage (Experiment 1) would represent a default state of the visual system towards highest-energy nutrients, yet the advantage is lost in hunger so to be tuned towards an increased need for any nutritional category. On the other hand, the conscious advantage of high-calorie food (Experiment 2) would represent a conscious perceptual and attentional bias towards highest energy-dense food useful for the actual detection of these stimuli in the environment
Affect (linguistics) · Binocular rivalry · Calorie · Cognitive psychology · Perception · Subliminal stimuli · Visual perception · Visual processing · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques · Communication · Medicine · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |