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Title: Discuss: Obesity affects learning
Post by: thedoc on 22/07/2014 19:31:02

Ifat Levy from Yale University explains to Kat Arney her recent study which looked at participants ability to learn in a task which exposed them to images of money and food. Obese women who were exposed to images of food during the task, showed impaired learning...
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Title: Can obesity affect learning?
Post by: thedoc on 22/07/2014 19:43:41

Ifat Levy from Yale University explains to Kat Arney her recent study which looked at participants ability to learn in a task which exposed them to images of money and food. Obese women who were exposed to images of food during the task, showed impaired learning...

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