Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Whenever food is placed in the mouth, taste receptors are stimulated. Simultaneously,
different types of sensory fibre that monitor several food attributes such as texture …

Neuroscientists have long recognized the importance of understanding the underlying
principles of information processing by large populations of neurons. Methods for Neural …

The process by which the mammalian nervous system represents the features of a sapid
stimulus that lead to a perception of taste quality has long been controversial. The labeled …

The amygdala processes multiple, dissociable properties of sensory stimuli. Given its central
location within a dense network of reciprocally connected regions, it is reasonable to expect …

Although the mouse is an experimental model with an increasing importance in various
fields of neuroscience, the characteristics of its central gustatory pathways have not yet been …

Taste is unique among the sensory systems in that, besides its recognition of quality, it is
innately associated with hedonic aspects of reward and aversion. This review of the …

Once the flavor of the ingested food (conditioned stimulus, CS) is associated with a
preferable (eg, good taste or nutritive satisfaction) or aversive (eg, malaise with displeasure) …

Several lines of evidence have indicated that the establishment of long-term memory
requires protein synthesis, including the synthesis of immediate-early gene products …

Recent gustatory studies have provided a growing body of evidence that taste processing is
dynamic and distributed, and the taste system too complex to be adequately described by …