Food-related odors activate dopaminergic brain areas

In this 2016 article, Wilkinson & Brunstrom firstly explain the popular belief that sensory specific satiety (the decline in pleasantness associated with a food as it is eaten relative to a food that has not been eaten) is controlled by habituation. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate whether ‘top-down’ cognitive activity has an effect on […]

The inefficacy of current healthy dietary promoting interventions, as individuals grapple with adherence to dietary guidelines, raises the need for more effective approaches. Recent publications highlighted the promise of using pleasure derived from eating to encourage consuming healthy foods. In this study by Vaillancourt et al. (2019), the authors juxtapose insights held on food, the […]