Time for taste - A review of the early cerebral processing of gustatory perception

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-99

  Ohla, Kathrin ^a   Busch, Niko A ^b,c   Lundström, Johan N ^a,d,e  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EEG (ERP); Event related responses; MEG (ERF); Taste

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE;

EID: 84858705696     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-011-9106-4     Document Type: Review

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