Communications Biology (Feb 2023)

Selectivity for food in human ventral visual cortex

  • Nidhi Jain,
  • Aria Wang,
  • Margaret M. Henderson,
  • Ruogu Lin,
  • Jacob S. Prince,
  • Michael J. Tarr,
  • Leila Wehbe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04546-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Neural responsiveness to food images was measured in healthy participants using fMRI, establishing food-selective regions using both data- and hypothesis-driven methods. Further analyses illuminate the organization of food within the visual system.