Despite the essential role of food in our lives, we have little understanding of the way our
knowledge about food is organized in the brain. At birth, human infants exhibit very few food …

The study of category specific deficits in brain-damaged patients has been instrumental in
explaining how knowledge about different types of objects is organized in the brain. Much of …

Visual recognition of objects may rely on different features depending on the category to
which they belong. Recognizing natural objects, such as fruits and plants, weighs more on …

We investigated whether there are reliable crossmodal associations between foods/flavours
and words in neurologically normal individuals. Participants were given a range of foods to …

An evolutionarily ancient skill we possess is the ability to distinguish between food and non-
food. Our goal here is to identify the neural correlates of visually driven 'edible …

Although specialized cortical pathways that process specific sensory stimuli and/or execute
cognitive functions have been identified, the neuro-specificity for food-related stimuli has not …

Food cues are omnipresent and may enhance overconsumption. In the last two decades the
prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically all over the world, largely due to …

Research Findings: In 2 experiments, we tested whether children generalize psychological
and biological properties to novel foods. We used an induction task in which a property …

Among all of the stimuli surrounding us, food is arguably the most rewarding for the essential
role it plays in our survival. In previous visual recognition research, it has already been …

Why living things, such as animals, fruit, and vegetables, can pose recognition or naming
problems compared to nonliving things for certain patients has intrigued neuropsychologists …