A neural signature of food semantics is associated with body-mass index

G Pergola, F Foroni, P Mengotti, G Argiris… - Biological psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Distinct brain representations of processed and unprocessed foods

C Coricelli, U Toepel, ML Notter… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Neural correlates of the food/non-food visual distinction

K Tsourides, S Shariat, H Nejati, TK Gandhi… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Food perception and categorization: From food/no-food to different types of food

F Foroni, RI Rumiati - Handbook of categorization in cognitive science, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability to categorize food and nonfood correctly and to distinguish between different
foods is essential for our survival. Because of our omnivore nature and because of the food …

Brain potentials highlight stronger implicit food memory for taste than health and context associations

HR Hoogeveen, J Jolij, GJ Ter Horst, MM Lorist - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Increasingly consumption of healthy foods is advised to improve population health. Reasons
people give for choosing one food over another suggest that non-sensory features like …

Decoding explicit and implicit representations of health and taste attributes of foods in the human brain

E Schubert, D Rosenblatt, D Eliby, Y Kashima… - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Obesity has become a significant problem word-wide and is strongly linked to poor food
choices. Even in healthy individuals, taste perceptions often drive dietary decisions more …

How task demands shape brain responses to visual food cues

TM Pohl, C Tempelmann, T Noesselt - Human brain mapping, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Several previous imaging studies have aimed at identifying the neural basis of visual food
cue processing in humans. However, there is little consistency of the functional magnetic …

Food's visually perceived fat content affects discrimination speed in an orthogonal spatial task

V Harrar, U Toepel, MM Murray, C Spence - Experimental brain research, 2011 - Springer
Choosing what to eat is a complex activity for humans. Determining a food's pleasantness
requires us to combine information about what is available at a given time with knowledge of …

Food knowledge depends upon the integrity of both sensory and functional properties: a VBM, TBSS and DTI tractography study

M Vignando, M Aiello, A Rinaldi, T Cattarruzza… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Food constitutes a fuel of life for human beings. It is therefore of chief importance that their
recognition system readily identifies the most relevant properties of food by drawing on …

Task‐dependent neural representations of visual object categories

A Farzmahdi, F Fallah, R Rajimehr… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
What do we perceive in a glance of an object? If we are questioned about it, will our
perception be affected? How does the task demand influence visual processing in the brain …