Cited by 445Regulation of Appetite and ObesityNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesMemory and Neural Mechanisms

Hunger selectively modulates corticolimbic activation to food stimuli in humans

LaBar, Kevin S., Gitelman, Darren R., Parrish, Todd B., Kim, Yun-Hee, Nobre, Anna C., Mesulam, M. -Marsel·2001·Behavioral Neuroscience

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to determine whether visual responses to food in the human amygdala and related corticolimbic structures would be selectively altered by changes in states of hunger. Participants viewed images of motivationally relevant (food) and motivationally irrelevant (tool) objects while undergoing fMRI in alternately hungry and satiated conditions. Food-related visual stimuli elicited greater responses in the amygdala, parahippocampal gyrus. and anterior fusiform gyrus when participants were in a hungry state relative to a satiated state. The state-dependent activation of these brain structures did not generalize to the motivationally irrelevant objects. These results support the hypothesis that the amygdala and associated inferotemporal regions are involved in the integration of subjective interoceptive states with relevant sensory cues processed along the ventral visual stream.

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Authors
LaBar, K. S., Gitelman, D. R., Parrish, T. B., Kim, Y.-H., Nobre, A. C., & Mesulam, M. M.
Affiliations
  • Duke University (US)
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Venue
Behavioral Neuroscience
Published
2001
Volume
115
Issue
2
Pages
493-500
ISSN
  • 0735-7044 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-0084
OpenAlex
W1980443792
Cited by
444
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67
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2.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS3086303)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
hunger, satiety, food stimuli, amygdala, corticolimbic system, parahippocampal gyrus, ventral stream, interoception, food motivation
MeSH terms
Adult, Amygdala, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Cues, Eating, Female, Humans, Hunger, Limbic System, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Neural Pathways, Satiety Response, Temporal Lobe, Visual Perception

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