Rapid taste responses in the gustatory cortex during licking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4126-4138

  Stapleton, Jennifer R ^a   Lavine, Michael L ^b   Wolpert, Robert L ^b   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c   Simon, Sidney A ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Fixed ratio schedule; Generalized linear model; Gustatory cortex; Licking; Taste

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; LICKING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; REACTION TIME; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TASTE; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 33646095996     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0092-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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