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Food Cue Reactivity

Evidence-informed definition Updated July 23, 2024 How to cite this entry

A conditioned response to food is frequently accompanied by increased salivation, physiological arousal, and neural activity in brain regions such as the ventral striatum (VS). This response is conditioned through environmental (smell, sight of foods), interoceptive (stress, negative affect, hormones), and physiological cues that accompany the thought of or ingestion of food (Boswell & Kober, 2016).

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Ephi Lu. (2024). Food Cue Reactivity. In Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.

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