Making Time Count: Functional Evidence for Temporal Coding of Taste Sensation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-25

  Di Lorenzo, Patricia M ^a   Leshchinskiy, Sergey ^a   Moroney, Dana N ^a   Ozdoba, Jasen M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conditioned taste aversion; electrical brain stimulation; nucleus of the solitary tract; taste; temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; QUININE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TASTE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60549105006     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014176     Document Type: Article

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