Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Traditionally, feedback from the body to the brain following eating was understood to function in drive reduction, promoting the cessation of eating upon repletion. However, it is now recognized that peripheral signals generated during nutrient digestion play a pivotal role in reinforcing past and shaping future behaviors. In this lecture I will present data supporting the primary role of subliminal nutritional signals in driving food reinforcement and discuss implications for current models of reinforcement learning.