Charlotte Sinding is a researcher in Neuroscience at INRAE, at the Center for Taste and Feeding Behavior in France. With an academic background in biology and ethology, she has been working on the sensory and cerebral correlates of odor-blending mixtures in rabbit pups and humans during her Ph.D. She then worked for three years at the Smell and Taste Clinic in Dresden (Germany) to study the brain mechanisms of odor habituation from the periphery to the central system and highlighted that habituation took place in different levels and structures of the olfactory system. She is interested in the brain mechanisms that give rise to the mental representation of a food based on its taste and odor. Charlotte Sinding aims to understand how this perception of food is modulated in people living with obesity or in populations with different culinary traditions. She has shown that odor-induced taste enhancement was mainly controlled by superior brain areas that might send feedback information to the primary gustatory area. Her work was rewarded in 2020 by the Lauriers de l'INRAE in the "young scientific hope" category.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0887-4429

Renaud Brochard is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Head of the Psychology Department at the University of Burgundy, in Dijon, France and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He carries out his research within the "Development of Olfactory Communication and Cognition" DOCC Group at the Center for Taste and Feeding Behavior (Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l'Alimentation, CSGA). Since he received his PhD in Neuroscience from Pierre & Marie Curie Paris University in 1997, he has been investigating the impact of attention on perception and emotion, specifically focusing on the consequences of rhythmic expectancies (predictive timing) on auditory, tactile or visual processing. After joining the CSGA in 2013, he broadened his research interests to olfaction and its interaction with stimulations from other modalities, especially music. Overall, his research aims to better describe the behavioral, psychophysiological and neural bases of the commonalities and differences between the senses.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1741-4990

David Guedes is a psychologist and doctoral researcher at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. His research interests include the determinants of food perception, preference, and choice, with particular emphasis on healthy and sustainable consumption. He’s currently completing his doctoral research on the role of audition on sweet taste perception.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-6258

Pablo Martínez Amezcua, Médico Cirujano, Maestro y Doctor, es Profesor en el Departamento de Epidemiología. Obtuvo su grado como médico en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México de la Ciudad de México. Después completó su Maestría en Ciencia de la Salud y Doctorado en Epidemiología en la Escuela de Salud Pública Bloomberg de la Universidad Johns Hopkins.

Su investigación doctoral y posdoctoral se enfocó en la comprensión de la asociación entre la pérdida auditiva y la función y actividad física. A grandes rasgos, está interesado en cómo los factores de riesgo cardiovascular en la mediana edad contribuyen a la salud en edades avanzadas, incluyendo la función física, la salud cognitiva y la pérdida sensorial. Martínez Amezcua es un apasionado de la enseñanza de la epidemiología.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-0946