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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Main Authors: Martha E Stone, Arianna eMaffei, Alfredo eFontanini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2011.00003/full