The role of the human orbitofrontal cortex in taste and flavor processing

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1121, Issue , 2007, Pages 136-151

  Small, Dana M ^a,b,c   Bender, Genevieve ^a,b   Veldhuizen, Maria G ^a,b   Rudenga, Kristin ^a,b   Nachtigal, Danielle ^a   Felsted, Jennifer ^a  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Feeding; Flavor; Food reward; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Gustation; Human; Motivation; Multisensory integration; Neuroimaging; Obesity; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLAVOR; FOOD; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; REWARD; SENSATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMELLING; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TASTE;

EID: 37549035806     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1401.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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