Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers

This pilot study aimed at implementing a new food picture database in the context of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) cognitive food-choice task, with an internal conflict or not, in healthy normal-weight adults. The database contains 170 photographs including starters, main courses, and...

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Main Authors: Yentl Gautier, Paul Meurice, Nicolas Coquery, Aymery Constant, Elise Bannier, Yann Serrand, Jean-Christophe Ferré, Romain Moirand, David Val-Laillet
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02620/full
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author Yentl Gautier
Paul Meurice
Nicolas Coquery
Aymery Constant
Elise Bannier
Elise Bannier
Yann Serrand
Jean-Christophe Ferré
Jean-Christophe Ferré
Romain Moirand
David Val-Laillet
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Paul Meurice
Nicolas Coquery
Aymery Constant
Elise Bannier
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Yann Serrand
Jean-Christophe Ferré
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Romain Moirand
David Val-Laillet
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description This pilot study aimed at implementing a new food picture database in the context of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) cognitive food-choice task, with an internal conflict or not, in healthy normal-weight adults. The database contains 170 photographs including starters, main courses, and desserts; it presents a broad-spectrum of energy content and is provided with portion weight and nutritional information. It was tested in 16 participants who evaluated the energy density and gave a liking score for all food pictures via numerical scales. First, volunteers were segregated into two groups according to their eating habits according to a food consumption frequency questionnaire (FCFQ) to assess whether the database might elicit different appreciations according to individual eating habits. Second, participants underwent fMRI cognitive food-choice task (van der Laan et al., 2014), using our picture database, in which they had to choose between high-energy (HE) and low-energy (LE) foods, under a similar liking (SL, foods with similar hedonic appraisals) condition or a different liking (DL, foods with different hedonic appraisals) condition. Participants evaluated correctly the caloric content of dishes (from r = 0.72 to r = 0.79, P < 0.001), confirming a good perception of the caloric discrepancies between food pictures. Two subgroups based on FCFQ followed by a principal component analysis (PCA) and a hierarchical ascendant classification (HAC) were defined, that is, Prudent-type (PTc, N = 9) versus Western-type (WTc, N = 7) consumers, where the WTc group showed higher consumption of HE palatable foods than PTc (P < 0.05). The WTc group showed a higher correlation between liking and caloric evaluation of the food pictures as compared to PTc (r = 0.77 and r = 0.36, respectively, P < 0.001), confirming that food pictures elicited variable responses according to contrasted individual eating habits. The fMRI analyses showed that the DL condition elicited the activation of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), involved in internal conflict monitoring, whereas SL condition did not, and that LE food choice involved high-level cognitive processes with higher activation of the hippocampus (HPC) and fusiform gyrus compared to HE food choice. Overall, this pilot study validated the use of the food picture database and fMRI-based procedure assessing decision-making processing during a food choice cognitive task with and without internal conflict.
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spelling doaj.art-7f082e680c2142f09f5132a8fb6767c52022-12-21T23:32:20ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-11-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02620486649Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy VolunteersYentl Gautier0Paul Meurice1Nicolas Coquery2Aymery Constant3Elise Bannier4Elise Bannier5Yann Serrand6Jean-Christophe Ferré7Jean-Christophe Ferré8Romain Moirand9David Val-Laillet10INRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceINRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceINRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceINRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceCNRS, INRIA, INSERM, IRISA UMR 6074, Empenn – ERL U 1228, University of Rennes, Rennes, FranceDepartment of Radiology, CHU Rennes, Rennes, FranceINRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceCNRS, INRIA, INSERM, IRISA UMR 6074, Empenn – ERL U 1228, University of Rennes, Rennes, FranceDepartment of Radiology, CHU Rennes, Rennes, FranceINRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceINRA, INSERM, Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, NuMeCan, Nutrition Metabolisms Cancer, Rennes, FranceThis pilot study aimed at implementing a new food picture database in the context of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) cognitive food-choice task, with an internal conflict or not, in healthy normal-weight adults. The database contains 170 photographs including starters, main courses, and desserts; it presents a broad-spectrum of energy content and is provided with portion weight and nutritional information. It was tested in 16 participants who evaluated the energy density and gave a liking score for all food pictures via numerical scales. First, volunteers were segregated into two groups according to their eating habits according to a food consumption frequency questionnaire (FCFQ) to assess whether the database might elicit different appreciations according to individual eating habits. Second, participants underwent fMRI cognitive food-choice task (van der Laan et al., 2014), using our picture database, in which they had to choose between high-energy (HE) and low-energy (LE) foods, under a similar liking (SL, foods with similar hedonic appraisals) condition or a different liking (DL, foods with different hedonic appraisals) condition. Participants evaluated correctly the caloric content of dishes (from r = 0.72 to r = 0.79, P < 0.001), confirming a good perception of the caloric discrepancies between food pictures. Two subgroups based on FCFQ followed by a principal component analysis (PCA) and a hierarchical ascendant classification (HAC) were defined, that is, Prudent-type (PTc, N = 9) versus Western-type (WTc, N = 7) consumers, where the WTc group showed higher consumption of HE palatable foods than PTc (P < 0.05). The WTc group showed a higher correlation between liking and caloric evaluation of the food pictures as compared to PTc (r = 0.77 and r = 0.36, respectively, P < 0.001), confirming that food pictures elicited variable responses according to contrasted individual eating habits. The fMRI analyses showed that the DL condition elicited the activation of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), involved in internal conflict monitoring, whereas SL condition did not, and that LE food choice involved high-level cognitive processes with higher activation of the hippocampus (HPC) and fusiform gyrus compared to HE food choice. Overall, this pilot study validated the use of the food picture database and fMRI-based procedure assessing decision-making processing during a food choice cognitive task with and without internal conflict.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02620/fulleating habitsdecision makingbraininternal conflicthealthy subjects
spellingShingle Yentl Gautier
Paul Meurice
Nicolas Coquery
Aymery Constant
Elise Bannier
Elise Bannier
Yann Serrand
Jean-Christophe Ferré
Jean-Christophe Ferré
Romain Moirand
David Val-Laillet
Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers
Frontiers in Psychology
eating habits
decision making
brain
internal conflict
healthy subjects
title Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers
title_full Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers
title_fullStr Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers
title_full_unstemmed Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers
title_short Implementation of a New Food Picture Database in the Context of fMRI and Visual Cognitive Food-Choice Task in Healthy Volunteers
title_sort implementation of a new food picture database in the context of fmri and visual cognitive food choice task in healthy volunteers
topic eating habits
decision making
brain
internal conflict
healthy subjects
url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02620/full
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