Studies using permanent lesions implicate the amygdala, a recipient of gustatory and
viscerosensory information, in taste aversion learning. Reviewing this literature with respect …

Conditioned taste aversion is arguably the most important learning process that humans and
animals possess because it prevents the repeated self-administration of toxic food. It has not …

T o eat, or not to eat: that is the question. Faced with a novel food, an animal is confronted
with a decision that cannot be taken lightly. While consumption may lead to a nutritious …

Taste neophobia, the rejection of novel tastes or foods, involves an interplay of various brain
regions encompassing areas within the central gustatory system, as well as nuclei serving …

Taste neophobia refers to a reduction in consumption of a novel taste relative to when it is
familiar. To gain more understanding of the neural basis of this phenomenon, the current …

The present study tested the hypothesis that lesions of the insular cortex of the rat retard the
acquisition of conditioned taste aversions (CTAs) because of an impairment in the detection …

The Insular Cortex (IC) is a portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within the lateral
sulcus–in rodents surrounding the rhinal fissure-between the temporal and frontal lobes …

The present study examined c-Fos expression in selected brain areas consequent to
administration of lithium chloride, the typical illness-inducing agent used in laboratory …

The effects of permanent forebrain lesions on conditioned taste aversions (CTAs) and
conditioned odor aversions (COAs) were examined in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1 …

The present study re-examined the involvement of the gustatory thalamus (GT) in the
acquisition of drug-and toxin-induced conditioned taste aversions (CTAs) using a …