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SUBMITTER: Chae KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6375564 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chae Kwon-Seok KS Oh In-Taek IT Lee Sang-Hyup SH Kim Soo-Chan SC
PloS one 20190214 2
The Earth's geomagnetic field (GMF) is known to influence magnetoreceptive creatures, from bacteria to mammals as a sensory cue or a physiological modulator, despite it is largely thought that humans cannot sense the GMF. Here, we show that humans sense the GMF to orient their direction toward food in a self-rotatory chair experiment. Starved men, but not women, significantly oriented toward the ambient/modulated magnetic north or east, directions which had been previously food-associated, witho ...[more]