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April 24, 2026Scientific ReportsOpen Access

Large-scale brain network interactions differentiate sweet, sour, and salty food cues during visual processing

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MLManyoel LimMKMin Jung Kim

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Overview

Exploratory investigation reveals distinct brain network responses to visual food cues by taste qualities, indicating underlying neural mechanisms.

Key Points

  • To explore how large-scale brain networks respond to visual food cues linked to different taste qualities.
  • Used electroencephalography to analyze brain activity in response to food images.
  • Examined functional connectivity across 100 cortical areas.
  • Investigated the distribution of connections across seven brain networks.
  • Sweet food images activated default mode network connectivity with somatomotor and attention networks.
  • Sour cues increased connectivity within the limbic and salience networks, indicating emotional evaluation.
  • Salty food images prompted widespread brain engagement, involving control, visual, default mode, and attention networks.

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Lim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69eb0a2e553a5433e34b4543https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-49773-9
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