Exploring the Space-Calorie Association: Preliminary Evidence from Reaction Time Performance

The present study was designed to investigate the representation of calorie levels in space. Previously an association between numerical magnitude and space has been established, namely, Spatial Numerical Association Response Codes (SNARC) effect. spatial-numerical reveals smaller larger numbers by left right sides, respectively. In addition, previous studies showed that spatial arrangement foods affects food selection behavior. three experiments, presence tested understand how it could potentially affect Reaction times were recorded speed information processing. Experiment 1, locations low high stimuli (in)congruent terms space-calorie association. 2, endogenous cues used bias attention if this would lead formation Finally, 3 investigated whether green red colors evoke approach or avoidance behavior prevent all results revealed lack calorie, is, presenting low/high items on left/right hemispace, respectively, did not modulate processing speed.