Palatable food consumption brings us happiness and offers a longer-lasting sense of
pleasure compared to other forms of enjoyment, even as we age older (Brillat-Savarin …

The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

The human orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and anterior
cingulate cortex are involved in reward processing and thereby in emotion but are also …

The human orbitofrontal cortex is an important brain region for the processing of rewards
and punishments, which is a prerequisite for the complex and flexible emotional and social …

The orbitofrontal cortex contains the secondary taste cortex, in which the reward value of
taste is represented. It also contains the secondary and tertiary olfactory cortical areas, in …

The concept of a (single) limbic system is shown to be outmoded. Instead, anatomical,
neurophysiological, functional neuroimaging, and neuropsychological evidence is …

The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

Exercise studies have suggested that the presence of carbohydrate in the human mouth
activates regions of the brain that can enhance exercise performance but direct evidence of …

Perceptions of the flavors of foods or beverages reflect information derived from multiple
sensory afferents, including gustatory, olfactory, and somatosensory fibers. Although flavor …

Flavor is perhaps the most multi-modal of all of our sensory experiences. Here flavor is
defined as a perception that includes gustatory, oral-somatosensory, and retronasal …