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 …

Lavender is traditionally alleged to have a variety of therapeutic and curative properties,
ranging from inducing relaxation to treating parasitic infections, burns, insect bites, and …

The perception of flavor is perhaps the most multisensory of our everyday experiences. The
latest research by psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists increasingly reveals the …

Chemical compounds from plants have been used as a medicinal source for various
diseases. Aromachology is a unique field that studies the olfactory effects after inhaling …

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 …

The authors tested the hypothesis that obese individuals experience greater reward from
food consumption (consummatory food reward) and anticipated consumption (anticipatory …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Following on from ecological theories of perception, such as the one proposed by [Gibson,
JJ (1966). The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin] this …

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 …