The neurocognitive bases of human multimodal food perception: Consciousness

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-286

  Verhagen, Justus V ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Amygdala; Attention; Chemesthesis; Consciousness; Flavor; Food; Gustation; Insular cortex; Multisensory integration; Olfaction; Orbitofrontal cortex; Perception; Perirhinal cortex; Recurrent network; Smell; Somatosensory; Taste

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FLAVOR; FOOD; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMEOSTATIC INTEROCEPTIVE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSULA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ORBITAL CORTEX; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMELLING; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TOUCH;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FOOD; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; SENSATION;

EID: 33846588401     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2006.09.002     Document Type: Review

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