Fig. 5: Food pleasantness and self-control task. | Communications Biology

Fig. 5: Food pleasantness and self-control task.

From: Automatic engagement of limbic and prefrontal networks in response to food images reflects distinct information about food hedonics and inhibitory control

Fig. 5: Food pleasantness and self-control task.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

A Participants performed another fMRI task in which they viewed a variety of foods that varied in nutritional content. During separate task blocks, they rated either the expected pleasantness of eating those foods or the degree of self-control required to NOT eat those foods. B Though the contextual framing of the conditions varied, participants’ average ratings across the pleasantness and self-control conditions were nearly perfectly correlated. All food images depicted here are original images prepared and photographed for this fMRI task. See the “Experimental design” section for more details.

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