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 …

Animals use current, past, and projected future states of the organism and the world in a
finely tuned system to control ingestion. They must not only deal effectively with current …

Omnivores, including rodents and humans, compose their diets from a wide variety of
potential foods. Beyond the guidance of a few basic orosensory biases such as attraction to …

Recent findings suggest the reward system encodes metabolic value independent of taste,
provoking speculation that the hedonic value of taste could be derived from nutritional value …

Food ensures our survival and is a potential source of pleasure and general well-being. In
order to survive, the human brain is required to optimize the resource allocation such that …

Post-ingestive signals conveying information about the nutritive properties of food are critical
for regulating ingestive behavior. Here, using an auction task concomitant to fMRI scanning …

This article reviews current research and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the
neuroscience of food reward in animals and humans, examines the scientific hypothesis of …

It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

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

Pleasure from foods can stimulate “non-homoeostatic” eating, and might therefore also
potentially contribute toward obesity. However, obesity is not reliably associated with …