Trial reportPsychonomic bulletin & review2018
The effect of food deprivation on human resolving power.
Trial report in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- How Does Fasting Affect Cognition? An Updated Systematic Review (2013-2020).Current nutrition reports · 2021Pooled it
- Food deprivation disrupts normal holistic processing of domain-specific stimuli.Psychological research · 2020Trial
- Difference thresholds in 3D space depend on perceived size, not depth.Psychological research · 2025Article
- The BTPI: An online battery for measuring susceptibility to visual illusions.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Stimuli predicting high-calorie reward increase dopamine release and drive approach to food in the absence of homeostatic need.Nutritional neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The feeling of hunger is an inseparable part of people's daily lives. It has been established that hunger, caused by food deprivation, influences people's physiological and emotional state and their everyday behavior. Yet, it remains unclear whether and in which manner food deprivation affects the way people perceive their environment. In two experiments, we examined the effects of food deprivation on the perceptual resolution of food portion size. We calculated Just Noticeable Differences (JNDs) to measure sensitivity to detect the smallest difference between two stimuli of different sizes. Participants' resolution in both experiments was higher to detect changes in food size compared with baseline when they were hungry due to a short period of food deprivation. Food deprivation did not lead to any biases in the average perception of food size. The results show that food deprivation changes the way people perceive their environment. We discuss the possible role of attention in mediating the effect of food deprivation on the visual resolution of food size.
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