Amygdala stimulation evokes time-varying synaptic responses in the gustatory cortex of anesthetized rats
Gustatory stimuli are characterized by a specific hedonic value; they are either palatable or aversive. Hedonic value, along with other psychological dimensions of tastes, is coded in the time-course of gustatory cortex (GC) neural responses and appears to emerge via top-down modulation by the basol...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2011.00003/full |