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| Poster #Other Merging the two roads-current insights on integration of visceral and sensory signalling in food reward valuation |
| Janina Seubert1 & Geraldine Coppin2,3 1Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, --, Sweden 2Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, --, Switzerland 3UniDistance Suisse, Geneva, --, Switzerland |
In a world where high-caloric foods are available in excess and overconsumed by many, the factors that drive humans towards specific food rewards and away from others urgently require better understanding. Food preferences are known to be acquired over the life course through contingencies between the experience of their specific flavors and both their positive metabolic outcomes (flavor-nutrient learning) and their associations with previously liked sensory properties (flavor-flavor learning). While both processes are increasingly understood at the neural and behavioral levels, research on these two subfields of food reward learning remains somewhat poorly integrated, and the development of an overarching framework for the integration of visceral and sensory processing of food reward is still ongoing. Uniting these complementary perspectives is key to understanding the complex interplay between the formation of reward predictions which drive our cravings and food choices, and the potential overconsumption of food. This symposium aims to bring together leading experts on food reward valuation who tackle the problem from sensory and visceral viewpoints, and who relate behavioral findings to brain function to create mechanistic insights into regulatory processes. |