Comments: Neuroscience and advertising research

The subject for this issue's Comments section is neuroscience and advertising research. Three researchers who have explored this topic in depth provide their views, showing the benefits that neuroscience can offer to advertising, and also detailing the current limits to our understanding of the link between the two.

Comments – neuroscience and advertising research

Professor John FordOld Dominion University, Virginia, USA

The subject for this issue’s Comments section is neuroscience and advertising research. Recent research has shed new light on the actual workings of the human brain, and important questions have been raised regarding brain functions and advertising effects.

Three researchers who have explored this topic in depth have taken the time to share their thoughts with the readers of International Journal of Advertising.

Erik du Plessis, the author of the book, The Advertised Mind (2005,...

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