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Miriam Fauzia

Is that a piece of cake? Here's how your brain knows something is food


When you spy a delicious slice of cake, the jump from sight to hunger may seem quite simple. But inside your head, it’s actually an electrifying orchestra of information zipping from neuron to neuron, and from one brain region to the next that lands you a moist piece of red velvet straight in your mouth.

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