Flavor preference learning increases olfactory and gustatory convergence onto single neurons in the basolateral amygdala but not in the insular cortex in rats

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Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Desgranges, Bertrand ^a   Ramirez Amaya, Victor ^b   Ricaño Cornejo, Itzel ^b   Lévy, Frédéric ^a   Ferreira, Guillaume ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVOR; INSULA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS;

SUCROSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; SUCROSE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956319271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010097     Document Type: Article

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