title: The role of novelty detection in food memory.
abstract: Memory plays a central role in food choice. Recent studies focusing on food memory in everyday eating and drinking behaviour used a paradigm based on incidental learning of target foods and unexpected memory testing, demanding recognition of the target among distractors, which deviate slightly from the target. Results question the traditional view of memory as reactivation of previous experiences. Comparison of data from several experiments shows that in incidentally learned memory, distractors are rejected, while original targets are not recognised better than by chance guessing. Food memory is tuned at detecting novelty and change, rather than at recognising a previously encountered food.
authors.affiliation: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, UMR CNRS, UMR INRA, Université de Bourgogne, Agrosup Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Léri
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Morin-Audebrand
authors.forename: Jos
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mojet
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chabanet
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Issanchou
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Møller
authors.forename: Ep
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Köster
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sulmont-Rossé
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*