The Role of the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex in Taste and Flavor Processing

: The human orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays an important role in representing taste, flavor, and food reward. The primary role of the OFC in taste is thought to be the encoding of affective value and the computation of perceived pleasantness. The OFC also encodes retronasal olfaction and oral somat...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2007-12, Vol.1121 (1), p.136-151
Hauptverfasser:	SMALL, DANA M., BENDER, GENEVIEVE, VELDHUIZEN, MARIA G., RUDENGA, KRISTIN, NACHTIGAL, DANIELLE, FELSTED, JENNIFER
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	addiction Animals feeding flavor Food food reward Frontal Lobe - physiology functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) gustation human Humans motivation multisensory integration neuroimaging obesity positron emission tomography (PET) Signal Transduction Taste - physiology
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