When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach【我们的视觉服务于我们的胃口】
Psychologists have known for decades that whats 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-Antipolis2, 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 brains high-level thinking processes get involved.
For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about lHungry 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 that the difference is in perceptions5, not in thinking processes, Radel says.
threshold n.起点，开端;门槛
neutral adj.中性的;中立的
strive v.努力，力求;斗争，注释：
2.University of Nice Sophia---Antipolis：法国尼斯索菲亚安提波利斯大学，简称尼斯大学，1965年经法国政令正式宣布成立。尼斯大学在尼斯市设有7处主校园，另外，还在索菲亚安提波利斯市、戛纳市和芒东市设有校区。索菲亚安提波利斯是位于尼斯市西南侧的科技园区，是许多高等学府的所在地。
4.at the threshold of:当快要开始时
6.at the disposal of:受到的控制