The cortical response to the oral perception of fat emulsions and the effect of taster status

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2572-2581

  Eldeghaidy, Sally ^a   Marciani, Luca ^b   McGlone, Francis ^a,c   Hollowood, Tracey ^b   Hort, Joanne ^b   Head, Kay ^a   Taylor, Andrew J ^b   Busch, Johanneke ^d   Spille, Robin C ^b   Gowland, Penny A ^a   Francis, Susan T ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Oral texture; Reward; Somatosensory; Supertaster

Indexed keywords

FAT; PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; EMULSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIETARY FATS; EMULSIFYING AGENTS; EMULSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOUTH; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956261963     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00927.2010     Document Type: Article

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