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Charlotte Sinding

Phone : +33 (0)3 80 69 36 91

Email : charlotte.sinding@inrae.fr

Address : INRAE 17 rue Sully 21065 Dijon FRANCE

Team "Flavour, Food-Oral-Processing, & Perception"

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Presentation

I am interested in how the brain combines odor and taste perceptions to produce mental food representation. I am working on close-to-real food and using fMRI and EEG brain imaging techniques. To highlight key brain areas and unravel the link between body weight and mental food representation, I investigate obese and lean populations.

Education

2012 PhD in Life Science (with honours). University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (duration 3.5 years) Processing of odorants mixtures: behavioural, psychophysical and neurophysiological study in human and newborn rabbits.

2008 MSc in Ethology, Ecology, Evolution (with distinction). Rennes 1 University (2 years). Chemical communication in Blattella germanica (L.) during foraging.

2006 BSc in Life Science. Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris 6.

Professional experience

2015- Research Scientist (Tenure Track). Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, l'Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (CSGA-INRAE), Dijon, France, Brain mechanisms of flavour perception.

2012-2015 Post-doctorate fellowship Smell and Taste Clinic, TU Dresden, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus. Brain investigation on the olfactory system (fMRI, EEG and EOG).

2008-2012 PhD in Life Science. University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (duration 3.5 years). Processing of odorants mixtures: behavioural, psychophysical and neurophysiological studies in human and newborn rabbits.

Research topic

Odor-taste integration and interaction, perception, odor-induced taste enhancement, neuroimaging, obesity.

Skills

fMRI, EEG-ERPs, psychophysics, ethology, gustometry, olfactometry.

Recent publications

Sinding C, Hummel T, Béno N, Prescott J, Bensafi M, Coureaud G, Thomas-Danguin T (accepted 2021) Configural memory of a blending aromatic mixture reflected in activation of the left orbital part of the inferior frontal gyrus. Behavioural Brain Research.

Sinding C, Thibault H, Hummel T, Thomas-Danguin T (2021) Odor-induced saltiness enhancement: insight into the brain chronometry of flavor. Neuroscience 452:136–137 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.10.029.

Laffon E, Hummel T, Marthan R, Sinding C (2020) Modelling analysis of centroid curves of olfactory habituation in humans. Physiol Behav 214:5–9.

Sinding, C., Valadier, F., Al-Hassani, Feron, G., Tromelin, A., Kontaris, I., Hummel, T. (2017). New determinants of olfactory habituation. Scientific Reports, 7, 41047. DOI : 10.1038/srep41047.

Bonny, J.-M., Sinding, C., Thomas-Danguin, T. (2017). Functional MRI and sensory perception of food. In: Modern Magnetic Resonance (p. 1-20). Cham, CHE : Springer International Publishing AG. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-28275-6_132-1.

Sinding, C., Valadier, F., Al-Hassani, Feron, G., Tromelin, A., Kontaris, I., Hummel, T. (Auteur de correspondance) (2017). New determinants of olfactory habituation. Scientific Reports, 7, 41047. DOI : 10.1038/srep41047.

PhD surpervision

Christopher AVELINE, PhD, 2018, Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, Dijon (France). Brain mechanisms of odor-induced taste enhancement in obese and normal-weight populations: electroencephalographic and sensory studies.

Marianela Santoyo Zedillo, 2019, Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, Dijon (France). Brain mechanisms of odor-induced sweetness enhancement in obese and normal-weight populations: fMRI and cross-cultural studies.

Mohammad Khalilian, 2018 in-doc 6 months, University of Ferdowsi, Mashhad, Iran. Brain mechanisms of texture-olfactory-gustatory interactions in sweet lemon model gels: electroencephalography and sensory studies.

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