David Alais

Nov 4, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | David Alais |Thomas Carlson |Olivia L Mooren |John Cooper

Many eukaryotic cells exhibit shape changes. One of the most intriguing examples is the single-celled ciliated eukaryote, Lacrymaria, which has long interested researchers with its dramatic, dynamic shape changes and great freedom of movement (Video S1).1 Lacrymaria is a predatory ciliate (Video S2) that is usually found in lakes and ponds.

Oct 2, 2024 | cell.com | David Alais

Keywordsfoodfood ratingshungerBMIserial dependencefood biasesResultsUnderlying the brain’s rapid analysis of food stimuli is a large, distributed network composed of numerous regions, including decision-related areas in the prefrontal cortex and visual areas in the occipital cortex.

Feb 7, 2024 | biorxiv.org | David Alais |Thomas Carlson

AbstractFood is fundamental to survival and our brains are highly attuned to rapidly process food stimuli. Neural signals show foods can be discriminated as edible or inedible as early as 85 ms after stimulus onset1, distinguished as processed or unprocessed beginning at 130 ms2 and as high or low density from 165 ms3. Recent evidence revealed specialised processing of food stimuli in the ventral visual pathway4-6, an area that underlies perception of faces and other important objects.