Beyond expectations: The responses of the autonomic nervous system to visual food cues

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 179, Issue , 2017, Pages 478-486

  Verastegui Tena, Luz ^a   Schulte Holierhoek, Aurelia ^a   van Trijp, Hans ^a   Piqueras Fiszman, Betina ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ANS; Expectations; Heart rate; Image perception; Skin conductance; Tasting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEVERAGE; CHOCOLATE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TASTE; VISION; WORM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICIPATION; ASSOCIATION; BODY IMAGE; EATING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY IMAGE; CUES; EATING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TASTE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85026210165     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.07.025     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Köster, E.P., The psychology of food choice: some often encountered fallacies. Food Qual. Prefer. 14 (2003), 359–373.
2. Danner, L., Haindl, S., Joechl, M., Duerrschmid, K., Facial expressions and autonomous nervous system responses elicited by tasting different juices. Food Res. Int. 64 (2014), 81–90.
3. McCorry, L.K., Physiology of the autonomic nervous system. Am. J. Pharm. Educ., 71, 2007.
4. Kistler, A., Mariauzouls, C., von Berlepsch, K., Fingertip temperature as an indicator for sympathetic responses. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 29 (1998), 35–41.
5. de Wijk, R.A., Boesveldt, S., Responses of the autonomic nervous system to flavours. Multisensory Flavor Perception: From Fundamental Neuroscience Through to the Marketplace, 2016, Woodhead Publishing.
6. Mendes, W.B., Harmon-Jones, E., Beer, J.S., Assessing Autonomic Nervous System Activity. Methods in Social Neuroscience. 2009, Guilford Press, New York, NY, US, 118–147.
7. He, W., Boesveldt, S., de Graaf, C., de Wijk, R.A., Dynamics of autonomic nervous system responses and facial expressions to odors. Front. Psychol., 5, 2014.
8. Quigley, K., Lindquist, K., Feldman-Barret, L., Inducing and measuring emotion and affect. Tips, tricks and secrets. Reis, H.T., Judd, C.M., (eds.) Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology, 2014, Cambridge University Press, 238–239.
9. Mauss, I.B., Robinson, M.D., Measures of emotion: a review. Cognit. Emot. 23 (2009), 209–237.
10. de Wijk, R.A., He, W., Mensink, M.G.J., Verhoeven, R.H.G., de Graaf, C., ANS responses and facial expressions differentiate between the taste of commercial breakfast drinks. PLoS One, 9, 2014, e93823.
11. Horio, T., Effects of various taste stimuli on heart rate in humans. Chem. Senses 25 (2000), 149–153.
12. Leterme, A., Brun, L., Dittmar, A., Robin, O., Autonomic nervous system responses to sweet taste: evidence for habituation rather than pleasure. Physiol. Behav. 93 (2008), 994–999.
13. de Wijk, R.A., Kooijman, V., Verhoeven, R.H.G., Holthuysen, N.T.E., de Graaf, C., Autonomic nervous system responses on and facial expressions to the sight, smell, and taste of liked and disliked foods. Food Qual. Prefer. 26 (2012), 196–203.
14. Robin, O., Rousmans, S., Dittmar, A., Vernet-Maury, E., Gender influence on emotional responses to primary tastes. Physiol. Behav. 78 (2003), 385–393.
15. van der Laan, L.N., de Ridder, D.T.D., Viergever, M.A., Smeets, P.A.M., The first taste is always with the eyes: a meta-analysis on the neural correlates of processing visual food cues. NeuroImage 55 (2011), 296–303.
16. Piqueras-Fiszman, B., Spence, C., Sensory expectations based on product-extrinsic food cues: an interdisciplinary review of the empirical evidence and theoretical accounts. Food Qual. Prefer. 40:Part A (2015), 165–179.
17. Tarancón, P., Sanz, T., Fiszman, S., Tárrega, A., Consumers' hedonic expectations and perception of the healthiness of biscuits made with olive oil or sunflower oil. Food Res. Int. 55 (2014), 197–206.
18. Lawless, H.T., Heymann, H., Sensory Evaluation of Food: Principles and Practices. 1999, Springer.
19. Cardello, A.V., Measuring consumer expectations to improve food product development. Consumer-Led Food Product Development, 2007, Woodhead Publishing, 223–261.
20. Lee, L., Frederick, S., Ariely, D., Try it, you'll like it: the influence of expectation, consumption, and revelation on preferences for beer. Psychol. Sci. 17 (2006), 1054–1058.
21. Davidenko, O., Delarue, J., Marsset-Baglieri, A., Fromentin, G., Tomé, D., Nadkarni, N. et al., Assimilation and contrast are on the same scale of food anticipated-experienced pleasure divergence. Appetite 90 (2015), 160–167.
22. Fonberg, E., Control of emotional behaviour through the hypothalamus and amygdaloid complex. CIBA Found. Symp. 8 - Physiology, Emotion and Psychosomatic Illness, 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 131–161.
23. Nederkoorn, C., Smulders, F.T.Y., Jansen, A., Cephalic phase responses, craving and food intake in normal subjects. Appetite 35 (2000), 45–55.
24. Vögele, C., Florin, I., Psychophysiological responses to food exposure: an experimental study in binge eaters. Int. J. Eat. Disord. 21 (1997), 147–157.
25. Overduin, J., Jansen, A., Food cue reactivity in fasting and non-fasting subjects. Eur. Eat. Disord. Rev. 4 (1996), 249–259.
26. Nederkoorn, C., Jansen, A., Cue reactivity and regulation of food intake. Eat. Behav. 3 (2002), 61–72.
27. Mandler, G., The structure of value: accounting for taste. Clark, M.S., Fiske, S.T., (eds.) Affect and Cognition: 17th Annual Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition, 2014, Taylor & Francis, 22–23.
28. Raudenbush, B., Capiola, A., Physiological responses of food neophobics and food neophilics to food and non-food stimuli. Appetite 58 (2012), 1106–1108.
29. Pollatos, O., Traut-Mattausch, E., Schroeder, H., Schandry, R., Interoceptive awareness mediates the relationship between anxiety and the intensity of unpleasant feelings. J. Anxiety Disord. 21 (2007), 931–943.
30. McFatter, R.M., Emotional intensity: some components and their relations to extra version and neuroticism. Personal. Individ. Differ. 24 (1998), 747–758.
31. Pliner, P., Hobden, K., Development of a scale to measure the trait of food neophobia in humans. Appetite 19 (1992), 105–120.
32. Miller, L.C., Murphy, R., Buss, A.H., Consciousness of body: private and public. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 41 (1981), 397–406.
33. Geuens, M., de Pelsmacker, P., Validity and reliability of scores on the reduced emotional intensity scale. Educ. Psychol. Meas. 62 (2002), 299–315.
34. Berkman, E.T., Lieberman, M.D., Approaching the bad and avoiding the good: lateral prefrontal cortical asymmetry distinguishes between action and valence. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 22 (2010), 1970–1979.
35. Piqueras-Fiszman, B., Kraus, A.A., Spence, C., “Yummy” versus “Yucky”! Explicit and implicit approach–avoidance motivations towards appealing and disgusting foods. Appetite 78 (2014), 193–202.
36. de Geus, E.J.C., Willemsen, G.H.M., Klaver, C.H.A.M., van Doornen, L.J.P., Ambulatory measurement of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and respiration rate. Biol. Psychol. 41 (1995), 205–227.
37. Kopacz, F.M., Smith, B.D., Sex differences in skin conductance measure as a function of shock threat. Psychophysiology 8 (1971), 293–303.
38. Carrillo, E., Moya-Albiol, L., González-Bono, E., Salvador, A., Ricarte, J., Gómez-Amor, J., Gender differences in cardiovascular and electrodermal responses to public speaking task: the role of anxiety and mood states. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 42 (2001), 253–264.
39. Antelmi, I., De Paula, R.S., Shinzato, A.R., Peres, C.A., Mansur, A.J., Grupi, C.J., Influence of age, gender, body mass index, and functional capacity on heart rate variability in a cohort of subjects without heart disease. Am. J. Cardiol. 93 (2004), 381–385.
40. Mathôt, S., Schreij, D., Theeuwes, J., Open Sesame: an open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences. Behav. Res. Methods 44 (2012), 314–324.
41. Brouwer, A.-M., van Wouwe, N., Mühl, C., van Erp, J., Toet, A., Perceiving blocks of emotional pictures and sounds: effects on physiological variables. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 7, 2013, 295.
42. Bradley, M.M., Lang, P.J., The International Affective Pictures System (IAPS) in the study of emotion and attention. Coan, J.A., Allen, J.B., (eds.) Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA, 29–46.
43. Sánchez-Navarro, J.P., Martínez-Selva, J.M., Torrente, G., Román, F., Psychophysiological, behavioral, and cognitive indices of the emotional response: a factor-analytic study. Span. J. Psychol. 11 (2008), 16–25.
44. Lacey, B.C., Lacey, J.I., Studies of heart rate and other bodily processes in sensorimotor behaviour. Obrist, P.A., Black, A.H., Brener, J., Dicara, L.V., (eds.) Cardiovascular Psychophysiology: Current Issues in Response Mechanisms, Biofeedback and Methodology, 2007, Transaction Publishers.
45. Midkiff, E.E., Bernstein, I.L., Targets of learned food aversions in humans. Physiol. Behav. 34 (1985), 839–841.
46. Profet, M., Pregnancy sickness as adaptation: a deterrent to maternal ingestion of teratogens. Barkow, H.J.H., Cosmides, H.L., Tooby, J., (eds.) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, 1995, Oxford University Press, USA, 328.
47. Hamm, A.O., Schupp, H.T., Weike, A.I., Motivational organization of emotions: autonomic changes, cortical responses and reflex modulation. Davidson, R.J., Scherer, K.R., Goldsmith, H.H., (eds.) Handbook of Affective Sciences, 2002, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 187–194.
48. Bradley, M.M., Moulder, B., Lang, P.J., When good things go bad: the reflex physiology of defense. Psychol. Sci. 16 (2005), 468–473.
49. Dawson, M.E., Schell, A.M., Filion, D.L., The electrodermal system. Cacioppo, J.T., Tassinary, L.G., Berntson, G.G., (eds.) Handbook of Psychophysiology, 3rd ed., 2000, Cambridge University Press, New York, New York US, 200–223.
50. Noseworthy, T.J., Di Muro, F., Murray, K.B., The role of arousal in congruity-based product evaluation. J. Consum. Res. 41 (2014), 1108–1126.