Larry Barsalou - Habits of Mind
Mind & Life
How Simulations Drive Eating Behavior?
i know you've been doing a lot of work on health behaviors and things like eating. Can you say how that plays in there? Sure, i think this is one of my favorite applications of the simulation construct. Ah, it seems to play absolutely central roles in many important things in our life. So forin eating, for example, we're constantly simulating what we would like to eat. These simulations can often be so powerful that they increase our salvation. And they can even make us eat when we're not hungry because we simulate the pleasure of eating.
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