Extensive lesions in the gustatory cortex in the rat do not disrupt the retention of a presurgically conditioned taste aversion and do not impair unconditioned concentration-dependent licking of sucrose and quinine

Chemical Senses

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-71

  Hashimoto, Koji ^a,b   Spector, Alan C ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hedonics; Insular cortex; Palatability

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; QUININE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INSULA; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

HEDONICS; INSULAR CORTEX; PALATABILITY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; QUININE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84890818302     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjt054     Document Type: Article

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