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Publication type: Journal Article

Lee N, Broderick AJ, Chamberlain L.
What is 'neuromarketing'? A discussion and agenda for future research.
Int J Psychophysiol. 2007 Feb; 63:(2):199-204
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T3M-4K5JVM3-1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=full&_orig=search&_cdi=4950&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=21ae2817b71153ae848a75410f28d920


Abstract:

Recent years have seen advances in neuroimaging to such an extent that neuroscientists are able to directly study the frequency, location, and timing of neuronal activity to an unprecedented degree. However, marketing science has remained largely unaware of such advances and their huge potential. In fact, the application of neuroimaging to market research—what has come to be called “neuromarketing”—has caused considerable controversy within neuroscience circles in recent times. This paper is an attempt to widen the scope of neuromarketing beyond commercial brand and consumer behaviour applications, to include a wider conceptualisation of marketing science. Drawing from general neuroscience and neuroeconomics, neuromarketing as a field of study is defined, and some future research directions are suggested.

Keywords:
Neuroscience; Neuromarketing; Neuroeconomics; Marketing; Neuroimaging Publication Types: Review MeSH Terms: Advertising/ethics Advertising/methods* Brain/physiology* Brain Mapping/methods* Cooperative Behavior Humans Interinstitutional Relations* Neurosciences/ethics*

 

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Cases of wilful misrepresentation are a rarity in medical advertising. For every advertisement in which nonexistent doctors are called on to testify or deliberately irrelevant references are bunched up in [fine print], you will find a hundred or more whose greatest offenses are unquestioning enthusiasm and the skill to communicate it.

The best defence the physician can muster against this kind of advertising is a healthy skepticism and a willingness, not always apparent in the past, to do his homework. He must cultivate a flair for spotting the logical loophole, the invalid clinical trial, the unreliable or meaningless testimonial, the unneeded improvement and the unlikely claim. Above all, he must develop greater resistance to the lure of the fashionable and the new.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963