How cognition modulates affective responses to taste and flavor: top-down influences on the orbitofrontal and pregenual cingulate cortices

This 2020 study assessed the brain’s response to different food odors and aimed to determine its association with energy density and individual body mass index (BMI) changes over a 2-year period. Twenty-five participants were presented with several different odors (high-fat/chocolate & peanut, low-fat/bread and peach, non-food/rose) while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine […]

Ziaduddeen et al. (2012) claim that although hunger may be reduced by the sensory-specific satiety (SSS) phenomenon (which describes the decline in satisfaction gained of the food being eaten relative to another type of food that has not been consumed), certain foods such as desserts remain attractive and encourage energy intake. Since it is important […]