Table 2.

Brain areas most consistently implicated in studies on food anticipation and food choice

Area	Function
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)/OFC	Incentive/subjective value of food
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC)	Self-control, anticipation of reward, monitoring of behavioral consequences
Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)	Conflict monitoring, self-control
Amygdala	Emotion, assigns value to sensory stimuli (valence)
Hippocampus	Episodic memory and learning aspects of food-related behaviors such as dietary learning
Striatum	Reward processing, motivated behaviors, and incentive learning
Insula	Interoception, encoding of multimodal sensory features of foods
Lateral occipital complex/occipital gyrus	Visual attention, object recognition
Primary motor cortex/precentral gyrus	Motor coordination and planning, motivation
Posterior parietal cortex	Subjective value, decision-making