Jason A. Avery

This study investigates how associative learning and expectations influence pain and hedonic taste perception, finding domain-general neural circuits involved in cue effects across different modalities.

This study investigates hemispheric differences in interoceptive processing in psychiatric disorders using neuroimaging, finding dysgranular mid-insula dysfunction in anxiety, depression, and eating disorder patients.

The paper shows that imagined and inferred tastes activate similar quality-specific neural patterns in the dorsal mid-insula.

This study shows that dietary fat restriction, but not carbohydrate restriction, reduces dopamine D2/3 receptor binding and neural activity in brain reward regions in adults with obesity.

The paper shows that viewing food pictures activates gustatory insular cortex in a taste-specific manner, but the neural patterns for pictures and actual tastes are distinct.

This study uses high-resolution fMRI to show that taste quality is represented by a combinatorial spatial code rather than a topographic map in the human brain.