The expectations humans have of a pleasurable sensation asymmetrically shape neuronal responses and subjective experiences to hot sauce

• Yi Luo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yluo@psy.ecnu.edu.cn (YL); kkishida@wakehealth.edu (KTK)

  Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6169-8938

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• Terry Lohrenz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

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• Ellen A. Lumpkin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• P. Read Montague,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Kenneth T. Kishida

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yluo@psy.ecnu.edu.cn (YL); kkishida@wakehealth.edu (KTK)

  Affiliations Department of Translational Neuroscience, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-8922

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