Taste and Olfactory Processing in the Brain and Its Relation to the Control of Eating

Critical Reviews in Neurobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 263-287

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appetite; Flavor; Frontal lobe; Hunger; Learning; Orbitofrontal cortex; Pleasure; Reward; Satiety; Smell; Taste

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; BRAIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOLOGY; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SATIETY; TASTE;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; BRAIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PRIMATES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SATIATION; SMELL; TASTE;

EID: 0030633505     PISSN: 08920915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevNeurobiol.v11.i4.20     Document Type: Article

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