The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

One fundamental question concerning brain reward mechanisms is to determine how
reward-related activity is influenced by the nature of rewards. Here, we review the …

The human orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and anterior
cingulate cortex are involved in reward processing and thereby in emotion but are also …

The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

The concept of a (single) limbic system is shown to be outmoded. Instead, anatomical,
neurophysiological, functional neuroimaging, and neuropsychological evidence is …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Complementary neuronal recordings in primates, and functional neuroimaging in humans,
show that the primary taste cortex in the anterior insula provides separate and combined …

Flavor is perhaps the most multi-modal of all of our sensory experiences. Here flavor is
defined as a perception that includes gustatory, oral-somatosensory, and retronasal …

Processing of subjective pleasantness is essential in daily life decision making, particularly
in the context of cognitive and environmental factors. Pleasure is mediated by a neural …

How cognition influences the affective brain representations of the taste and flavor of a food
is important not only for understanding top-down influences in the brain, but also in relation …