Eating my words

Mark My Words

I have previously espoused this view, but it seems to your editor that medical specialties can be viewed using the lexicon of Physics. At one end of the spectrum we find Relativity (The world of the very large like my own specialty, Radiology) and at the other end, the world of the very small: Quantum Mechanics. In this edition, we consider as our review article, another of the ‘quantum’ subjec...

In My Own Words: A Final Portfolio

Tempting food words activate eating simulations

This study shows that tempting food words activate simulations of eating the food, including simulations of the taste and texture of the food, simulations of eating situations, and simulations of hedonic enjoyment. In a feature listing task, participants generated features that are typically true of four tempting foods (e.g., chips) and four neutral foods (e.g., rice). The resulting features we...

Out of my real body: cognitive neuroscience meets eating disorders

Clinical psychology is starting to explain eating disorders (ED) as the outcome of the interaction among cognitive, socio-emotional and interpersonal elements. In particular two influential models-the revised cognitive-interpersonal maintenance model and the transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral theory-identified possible key predisposing and maintaining factors. These models, even if very influ...

Your words are my words: effects of acting together on encoding.

Social influences on action and memory are well established. However, it is unknown how acting together affects the incidental encoding of information. The present study asked whether coactors encode information that is relevant to a partner's task, but irrelevant to their own task. In Experiment 1, participants performed a categorization task alone and together, followed by a surprise free rec...