文档介绍：第十一篇 When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach
我们的视觉服务于我们的胃口
Our senses aren’t just delivering strict view of what’s going on in the world;
they’re affected by what’s going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry 饥
饿的people see food-related与食物相关的words more clearly 清晰地,真切地
than people who’ve just (第1题答案出处)
Psychologists have known for decades that what’s going on,inside our head
affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are,
and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. Remi Radel of University of
Nice Sophia-Antipolis,France,wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it
happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the
brain’s high-level thinking processes get involved.
Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or
her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of
not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told e back in 10
minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were
hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just
(=non-hungry)(第2题答案出处)
For the experiment, the participant looked at puter screen. One by one, 80
words flashed on the screen for about l/300th of a second 三百分之一秒each.
They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously有意识的
perceive感知.(第4题答案出处1) A quarter of the words were food-related. After
each word,each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose
which of two words they’d seen — a food-related word like cake or a neutral word
like boat. Each word appeared 出现too briefly短暂地 for the participant to
really read it.(第4题答案出处2)
Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at
identifying food- related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be
reliably seen, this means tha