Encoding and tracking of outcome-specific expectancy in the gustatory cortex of alert rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 13000-13017

  Gardner, Matthew P H ^a,b   Fontanini, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipatory cues; Coding; Expectation; Insular cortex; Learning; Reward

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; GUSTATORY CORTEX; LEARNING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOUTH EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RANK SUM TEST; RAT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SMELLING AND TASTE; TASTE DELIVERY; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; ANTICIPATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE;

ANIMALS; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; NEURONS; QUININE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUCROSE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84907292155     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1820-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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