Food is an important sensory pleasure. The aim of this chapter is to outline what is currently
known about the neural basis for the hedonic representation of taste and flavor in lean …

Publisher Summary This chapter aims to describe the rules of the cortical processing of taste
and smell, how the pleasantness or affective value of taste and smell are represented in the …

The aims of this paper are to describe the rules of the cortical processing of taste and smell,
how the pleasantness or affective value of taste and smell are represented in the brain, and …

Among well-nourished populations, eating beyond homeostatic needs when presented with
caloric-dense palatable food evidences the assertion that an increasing proportion of …

Flavor is one of the most multisensory, not to mention the most enjoyable, of our everyday
experiences. The experience of flavor involves the neural integration of taste (gustatory) …

The Essence of Gastronomy: Understanding the Flavor of Foods and Beverages presents a
new comprehensive and unifying theory on flavor, which answers ancient questions and …

The conscious perception of the hedonic sensory properties of caloric foods is commonly
believed to guide our dietary choices. Current and traditional models implicate the …

For more than 2,000 years, philosophers have struggled to define, let alone explain,
pleasure or hedonics. With contemporary animal models and techniques, scientists now …

Complementary neuronal recordings and functional neuroimaging in human subjects show
that the primary taste cortex in the anterior insula provides separate and combined …

Background Food in general, and fatty foods in particular, have obtained intrinsic reward
value throughout evolution. This reward value results from an interaction between …