An article by Dr. Sato and his colleagues has been published in Frontiers in Nutrition

An article authored by Dr. Sato (Psychological Process Research Team) and his colleagues has been published in Frontiers in Nutrition.
This study investigated the neural mechanisms through which crispy monaka ice cream evokes pleasurable emotions.

Details are as follows.

Yamamoto, T., Tanaka, R., Kochiyama, T., Nota, Y., Tsuchiya, H., Kawamoto, M., & Sato, W. (2025). Pleasantness emotions and neural activity induced by the multimodal crispiness of monaka ice cream. Frontiers in Nutrition, 12, 1681999. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2025.1681999