Learning through the taste system

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2011, 2011, Pages

  Scott, Thomas R ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Conditioned taste preference; Learning; Rat; Taste

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE;

AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; INSULA; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARABRANCHIAL NUCLEUS; REWARD; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TASTE; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE PREFERENCE; VENTROMEDIAL GLOBUS PALLIDUS;

EID: 84856173416     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00087     Document Type: Article

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