Brain mechanisms of flavor learning

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER 2011, 2011, Pages

  Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Ueji, Kayoko ^a  

^a KIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aversion; Brain; Conditioning; Odor; Preference; Taste

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ACETYLCHOLINE; AMILORIDE; CARBACHOL; MUSCIMOL; QUININE; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONDITIONING; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLAVOR; FOOD INTAKE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; REVIEW; REWARD; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 84862908935     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00076     Document Type: Review

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