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Neuroscience and the Food Industry

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Neurolinguistics and the food industry; Neuromarketing and neuro-medicine; Neuroscientists and agriculture; Neuroscience in the alimentation sector

Introduction

The food industry is far more complex today than it was even 20 years ago. The sheer magnitude of merchandise on the market and the amount of information available to both producers and consumers are unparalleled. This complexity poses challenges to scientists, marketing specialists, and others who research the impacts of the food industry on health and well-being. Increasingly, neuroscience has become an important research tool.

Food Industry and Neuro-medicine

There are different applications of neuroscience in the food industry. Neuroscience can be used, for example, to study how people with different deficits perceive food or how their perception determines their food intake. The health-related sphere of neuroscientific investigations concerns the role of food consumption in curing diseases or at least...

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  1. Intercultural Communication and Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Languages, University of Gdansk, 80-308, Wita Stwosza 51, Gdansk, Poland

    Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska

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  1. Michigan State University Dept. Philosophy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  2. University of North Texas Dept. Philosophy & Religion Studies, Denton, Texas, USA

    David M. Kaplan

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Bielenia-Grajewska, M. (2017). Neuroscience and the Food Industry. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_290-1

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