Study reveals the map of neural responses that mediate taste perception does not involve a specific, specialized group of neurons, but overlapping and spatially distributed neural populations.
Learning to avoid certain tastes depends on the long term reduction in activity the connections between threat and taste sensors in the brain.
SatB2PBN-expressing neurons in the parabrachial nucleus play a key role in processing and encoding sweet tastes. The SatB2PBN neurons relay sweet taste signals from the gustatory thalamus to the cortex in mouse models.
A new theoretical model helps explain how the gustatory cortex mediates the expectation of receiving a taste. The model sheds light on the neural basis of expectation.
Researchers report the gustatory cortex relies on all the senses to anticipate taste.
According to a new study, the area of the brain associated with impulsivity and the development of OCD is activated in obese children when they smell food.
