Memory: Humans are better at recalling where we left high-calorie junk food than healthy snacks
Keep finding your way to the biscuit tin? Humans are better at remembering the location of high-calorie foods than healthy snacks because of our ‘hunter-gatherer instincts’ to avoid starvation Researchers from the Netherlands tested the spatial memory of 512 participants Each subject explored a room dotted with real food or food-odour samples As they walked … Read more
