Building a foundation for neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience research: How researchers can apply academic rigor to the neuroscientific study of advertising effects

Since its modern inception about two decades ago, the use of neuroscience tools and insights in studying advertising has grown an increasing prominence in the researcher's toolbox.

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  • The inclusion of neuroscience and psychology has benefited researchers’ understanding of consumers and communication effects.
  • Conceptual inconsistencies, poor business practices, and a lack of academic rigor have hampered the emerging fields of consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing.
  • Applied research needs to provide a way to ensure that basic research is translated, validated, and tested against the initial claims.
  • The language of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience should be employed, because it has the longest and most substantial research on the faculties of the mind.
  • Collaborative efforts are needed to reduce conceptual...

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