Critical role of insular cortex in taste but not odour aversion memory

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1654-1662

  Bertrand, Desgranges ^a   Yannick, Sevelinges ^a   Mathilde, Bonnefond ^a,b   Frédéric, Lévy ^a   Nadine, Ravel ^b   Guillaume, Ferreira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Amygdala; Consolidation; Flavour; Learning; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INGESTION; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; STIMULUS; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FOOD; MALE; MEMORY; ODORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TASTE;

EID: 64849093899     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06711.x     Document Type: Article

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