Visualizing the IKEA effect: experiential consumption assessed with fNIRS-based neuroimaging

Oishi, Hiroki; Nakazawa, Kenta; Takahashi, Tomoki; Kyutoku, Yasushi; Dan, Ippeita

doi:10.3389/fnrgo.2023.1129582

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“…The sampling rate was set to 10 Hz. We placed the fNIRS probes to cover most of the prefrontal cortex together with dorsal parts of the temporal lobe and the anterior part of the parietal lobe as in previous studies (Oishi et al, 2023 ; Figure 2 ). We used 3 × 11 multichannel probe-holders that consisted of 17 illuminating and 16 detecting probes arranged alternately at an inter-probe distance of 3 cm for a total of 52 channels to obtain the cerebral hemodynamic responses.…”

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Assessing functional impulsivity using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Nakazawa,

Hirabayashi,

Kawai

et al. 2023

Front. Neuroergonomics

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IntroductionIn neuromarketing, a recently developing, inter-disciplinary field combining neuroscience and marketing, neurophysiological responses have been applied to understand consumers' behaviors. While many studies have focused on explicit attitudes, few have targeted implicit aspects. To explore the possibility of measuring implicit desire for a product, we focused on functional impulsivity related to obtaining a product as a reward and devised a product-rewarded traffic light task (PRTLT). The PRTLT requires participants to take risks under time pressure in order for them to maximize rewards in the form of commercial products, with the brand of products being an independent variable. Thus, we explored the feasibility of applying a PRTLT in a neuromarketing context to implicitly differentiate between the perceived value of products and supported our data with neurophysiological evidence obtained using fNIRS to concurrently monitor cortical activation.MethodsThirty healthy students were asked to perform the PRTLT. We compared participants' functional impulsivity toward two different chocolate products that had obviously different values. Along with their behavioral responses, participants' cerebral hemodynamic responses during the PRTLT were measured using fNIRS covering the lateral prefrontal cortices and the neighboring regions. We conducted adaptive general linear model (GLM) analysis for hemodynamic responses. First, we identified the regions involved in the PRTLT. Second, we compared activation patterns between expensive and inexpensive conditions.ResultsBehavioral analysis confirmed that the expensive condition trended toward producing a higher PRTLT score than did the inexpensive condition. fNIRS neuroimaging analysis showed task-derived activation in the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and frontopolar cortex (FPC). Moreover, we found significant differences between expensive and inexpensive conditions in the cortical activations in the FPC and the left-DLPFC.ConclusionThese results imply that the two products evoked different functional impulsivity, and the hemodynamic responses reflect that. Thus, we concluded that it is possible to observe differences in demand for products using a PRTLT that evokes functional impulsivity. The current study presents a new possibility in neuromarketing research of observing differences between consumers' covert attitudes toward commercially available products, possibly providing a neural basis related to hidden needs for some products.

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