Obesity is a neurobehavioral disorder that results from a combination of overeating and
insufficient physical activity. Finely tuned mechanisms exist to match food intake to caloric …

There has been a rapid recent growth in academic attempts to summarise, understand, and
predict the taste profile matching complex images that incorporate multiple visual design …

Sensation and action are necessarily coupled during stimulus perception–while tasting, for
instance, perception happens while an animal decides to expel or swallow the substance in …

Taste hedonics is a well-documented driver of food consumption. The role of sweetness in
directing ingestive behavior is largely rooted in biology. One can then intuit that individual …

Electrophysiological analysis has revealed much about the broad coding and neural
ensemble dynamics that characterize gustatory cortical (GC) taste processing in awake rats …

Flavor is an integrated unified perceptual phenomenon that arises from inputs across
multiple sensory modalities, including taste, smell, chemical touch (chemesthesis), and oral …

Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by
increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H …

The categorization of food via sensing nutrients or toxins is crucial to the survival of any
organism. On ingestion, rapid responses within the gustatory system are required to identify …

Sensory liking is a biological process by which biological organisms compute how liked or
disliked a sensory stimulus is. The purpose of this process is to tag the sensory objects an …

In a similar manner to other learning paradigms, intact muscarinic acetylcholine receptor
(mAChR) neurotransmission or protein synthesis regulation in the anterior insular cortex …