ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2020
Extrinsic Factors Underlying Food Valuation in the Human Brain.
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- Neural mechanisms of expert persuasion on willingness to pay for sugar.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Insight into the Role of Psychological Factors in Oral Mucosa Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- "Expert persuasion" can decrease willingness to pay for sugar-containing food.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- "Sound" Decisions: The Combined Role of Ambient Noise and Cognitive Regulation on the Neurophysiology of Food Cravings.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Is It Worth It? Obesity Affects Snack Food Valuation Across the Menstrual Cycle.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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- A Multisensor Data Fusion Approach for Predicting Consumer Acceptance of Food Products.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Subjective values for food rewards guide our dietary choices. There is growing evidence that value signals are constructed in the brain by integrating multiple types of information about flavor, taste, and nutritional attributes of the foods. However, much less is known about the influence of food-extrinsic factors such as labels, brands, prices, and packaging designs. In this mini-review article, we outline recent findings in decision neuroscience, consumer psychology, and food science about the effect of extrinsic factors on food value computations in the human brain. To date, studies have demonstrated that, while the integrated value signal is encoded in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, information on the extrinsic factors of the food is encoded in diverse brain regions previously implicated in a wide range of functions: cognitive control, memory, emotion and reward processing. We suggest that a comprehensive understanding of food valuation requires elucidation of the mechanisms behind integrating extrinsic factors in the brain to compute an overall subjective value signal.
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