This special issue showcases research that demonstrates
the usefulness of neuroscientific approaches to a range of
marketing-related questions. The past decade has yielded
extraordinary advances in understanding of how brain processes
produce human behavior. These advances have
fueled a steady growth in the application of neuroscientific
methods to generate both theoretical and practical insights
into consumer behavior and marketing. They have been
especially fruitful in illuminating consumers’ decision processes
across multiple marketing-related domains, particularly
those underlying valuation and choice (for recent
reviews, see Smidts et al. 2014; Yoon et al. 2012). Because
these developments have been published primarily in neuroscience
journals, marketing scholars and practitioners may
not be fully aware of the range of problems and questions
that neuroscientific methods can address. This special issue
aims to bring Journal of Marketing Research readers up to
date on what neuroscience has done, and can do, to inform
marketing.