An obvious advantage of integrating research in neuroscience with that in consumer behavior is that neuroscientific methods such as fMRI offer the promise of localizing neural activity associated with various phenomena. These methods offer the advantage of providing direct tests for existing as well as new theories. This is particularly important for furnishing process-level evidence especially when the underlying processes are nonconscious and thus, difficult to tap using conventional psychological techniques. Apart from providing new methodologies for testing theories, neuroscience offers considerable promise in terms of
1. Providing confirmatory evidence about the existence of a phenomenon
2. Generating a more fundamental (i.e.,a neural-level) conceptual
3. Refining existing conceptualizations of various phenomena