Bonus Episode: How a Virtual Buffet Can Help Kids Learn to Eat Better with Susan Persky, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Getting children to eat healthy meals is a challenge many parents face but what if virtual reality could help? Researchers at the National Institute of Health are using new technology to understand why parents feed their kids the foods they do and to help them make smarter food choices for the health of their children. Our guest for this episode is psychologist Susan Persky, PhD, head of the Immersive Virtual Environment Testing Unit where she applies virtual reality to biomedical research. Join us online August 6-8 for APA 2020 Virtual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Caitlin Luna, host of Speaking of Psychology. This episode was recorded
0:10.7	during APA's Technology, Mind, and Society conference held in October 2019 in Washington, D.C.
0:17.3	I was on maternity leave during that time, so my colleague Kim Mills was a guest host. We hope
0:22.8	you enjoy this episode. Hello and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a biweekly podcast from the
0:28.4	American Psychological Association that explores the breadth and depth of psychological science.
0:33.8	I'm your host, Kim Mills, and I'm speaking to you from APA's annual Technology, Mind, and Society Conference in Washington, D.C., a cross-disciplinary meeting to discuss psychology's role in developing and advancing everything from virtual reality to artificial intelligence, to robotics, to the Internet of Things.
0:52.2	My guest today is Dr. Susan Persky, a psychologist who works at the National
0:56.2	Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. She is an associate investigator
1:02.1	and head of the immersive virtual environment testing unit where she directs the immersive
1:07.2	virtual environment testing area within the social and behavioral research branch,
1:12.4	which sounds intimidating, but what she does on a day-to-day basis is apply virtual reality
1:17.2	to biomedical research. She also covers NIH research into communication and decision-making
1:22.7	in patients as they react to simulations of environments that mind trigger healthy or unhealthy behaviors.
1:29.1	Welcome to speaking of psychology, Dr. Persky.
1:31.7	Thanks for having me.
1:32.8	So let's start by talking about the work that you presented at APA's annual technology, mind, and society conference.
1:39.8	It involves using a virtual reality buffet to measure and understand how parents teach their children about food and eating.
1:46.0	Can you tell us a little more about the project?
1:48.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:49.0	So the genesis of the buffet was really back when a colleague and I were doing a study where we were trying to understand how talking to parents
1:58.0	about genetics, genomic-based risk for a child might influence that
2:02.8	parent's feeding behavior. So the choices that a parent would make for a child once they
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