Cognitive neuroscience · OSU-CHS · Tulsa
How does the brain turn bodily signals into cravings, choices, and experience?
We study taste, interoception, food cognition, and reward—tracing how the insula and brain-wide networks translate what the body needs into what the mind wants.
- Focus
- Taste · body · reward
- Methods
- fMRI · behavior · modeling
- Home
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
Research program
Questions that connect brain, body, and behavior.
Our work spans sensory neuroscience, semantic cognition, reward, and addiction—but the common thread is how internal state and context shape what people perceive, value, and do.
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People
A growing lab with room for curious minds.
We welcome students and researchers interested in human neuroscience, fMRI methods, interoception, food cognition, addiction, and the many useful spaces between them.
Contact
Interested in the work?
We’re always glad to hear from prospective trainees, collaborators, and people who simply have a good scientific question.
Email the labOklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Hardesty Center for Clinical Research and Neuroscience, 1013 E 66th Pl, Tulsa, OK 74136
jason.avery@okstate.edu