Publications by authors named "Sally L Pears"
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- A study was done to see if a 24-hour food diary could help track how much fruit and vegetables kids eat during school snacks after starting a healthy eating program called Food Dudes.
- * The study involved children aged 4 to 9 from two schools, one using the program and one not, and measured their snack consumption by weighing the food and comparing it to teachers' guesses.
- * Results showed that the food diary was not always perfect at showing changes in how many fruits and veggies the kids ate after the program, which means we need better ways to measure what kids actually eat for future healthy eating programs.
The intention to execute a movement can modulate our perception of sensory events; however, theoretical accounts of these effects, and also empirical data, are often contradictory. We investigated how perception of a somatosensory stimulus differed according to whether it was delivered to a limb being prepared for movement or to a nonmoving limb. Our results demonstrate that individuals perceive a somatosensory stimulus delivered to the "moving" limb as occurring significantly later than when an identical stimulus is delivered to a "nonmoving" limb.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe intention to execute a movement can modulate our perception of sensory events, and this modulation is observed ahead of both ocular and upper limb movements. However, theoretical accounts of these effects, and also the empirical data, are often contradictory. Accounts of "active touch", and the premotor theory of attention, have emphasized how movement intention leads to enhanced perceptual processing at the target of a movement, or on the to-be-moved effector.
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