Publications by authors named "Elcin Caglar"
Article Synopsis
- Childhood obesity is increasingly recognized as a significant global health issue, with environmental influences playing a role in its development.
- A study involving 63 adolescents examined pupillary responses to auditory food vs. nonfood words, using a remote eye-tracking device to measure changes in pupil size.
- Results showed that healthy-weight adolescents exhibited greater pupil dilation to food words compared to those with obesity, who had a similar response to both food and nonfood cues; this suggests the need to explore psychological factors affecting these responses in future research.
Adolescent obesity is a growing global health problem. Studies have demonstrated that exposure to food cues plays a role in both the development and the persistence of obesity. Understanding how visual attention changes dynamically in response to food cues may explain how they contribute to obesity.
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