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What happens in your brain when you taste food

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With fascinating research and hilarious anecdotes, neuroscientist Camilla Arndal Andersen takes us into the lab where she studies people's sense of taste via brain scans. She reveals surprising insights about the way our brains subconsciously experience food -- and shows how this data could help us eat healthier without sacrificing taste.

With fascinating research and hilarious anecdotes, neuroscientist Camilla Arndal Andersen takes us into the lab where she studies people's sense of taste via brain scans. She reveals surprising insights about the way our brains subconsciously experience food -- and shows how this data could help us eat healthier without sacrificing taste.

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Camilla Arndal Andersen

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Instead of asking them what they think, Camilla Arndal Andersen covers her subjects in sensors to reveal their unfiltered and subconscious response to food.

Tor Nørretranders | Penguin Books, 1999 | Book

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

If you want to dig deeper and understand just how limited our consciousness actually is, then I strongly recommend this book. Tor Nørretranders combines complex topics such as information theory, psychology and art to reveal that what we experience is really just a highly processed and distorted version of reality. Trust me, this book will transform your world view. In fact, it changed teenager-me's world view so much, that this was when I just knew I had to work with neuroscience.

Camilla Arndal Andersen, et al. | Journal of Neuroscience Research, 2018 | Article

"EEG discrimination of perceptually similar tastes"

Institut for Ingeniørvidenskab | Article

"Development of Methods for Objective EEG Analysis of Brain Activity induced by Sugar, Salt, Fat and their Substituents"

Camilla Arndal Andersen, Line Nielsen, Stine Møller, Preben Kidmose | Chemical Senses, 2020 | Article

"Cortical Response to Fat Taste"

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