title: Does taste matter? How anticipation of cola brands influences gustatory processing in the brain.
abstract: Brands surround us everywhere in daily life. Here we investigate the influences of brand cues on gustatory processing of the same beverage. Participants were led to believe that the brand that announced the administration of a Cola mixture provided correct information about the drink to come. We found stronger fMRI signal in right mOFC during weak compared to strong brand cues in a contrast of parametric modulation with subjective liking. When directly comparing the two strong brands cues, more activation in the right amygdala was found for Coca Cola cues compared with Pepsi Cola cues. During the taste phase the same beverage elicited stronger activation in left ventral striatum when it was previously announced by a strong compared with a weak brand. This effect was stronger in participants who drink Cola infrequently and might therefore point to a stronger reliance on brand cues in less experienced consumers. The present results reveal strong effects of brand labels on neural responses signalling reward.
authors: Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. kuehn@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
authors: Simone
authors: S
authors: Kühn
authors: Jürgen
authors: J
authors: Gallinat
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D002253:Carbonated Beverages; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*; D055697:Taste Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
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