Temporal Coding of Sensation: Mimicking Taste Quality with Electrical Stimulation of the Brain

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1423-1433

  Di Lorenzo, Patricia M ^a   Hallock, Robert M ^a   Kennedy, Daniel P ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE AVERSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUCROSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASTE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0346995288     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1423     Document Type: Article

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