Cephalic phase responses, craving and food intake in normal subjects

In this review, McCrickerd & Forde (2016) focus on sensory characteristics and how we can utilize it to reduce people’s food/energy consumption. The regulation of intake can largely depend on the sensory processes at work while eating, particularly the hedonic/pleasure-related response to specific sensory cues. The authors note that the sensory experience begins before consumption, […]

This 2013 article by Berridge & Kringelbach marks the progress seen in the understanding of pleasure or positive affect (hedonia) and the process of wanting, liking, and learning. The authors also note the lack of knowledge accumulated so far on how one feels a meaningfulness or engagement in life, otherwise known as eudaimonia. The hedonic […]