ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
A comparative analysis of neural taste processing in animals.
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- Drosophila Bitter Taste(s).Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2015Review
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- The evolutionary and genetic origins of consciousness in the Cambrian Period over 500 million years ago.Frontiers in psychology · 2013Article
- Not all sugars are created equal: some mask aversive tastes better than others in an herbivorous insect.The Journal of experimental biology · 2012Article
- Morphology and behaviour: functional links in development and evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Article
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Abstract
Understanding taste processing in the nervous system is a fundamental challenge of modern neuroscience. Recent research on the neural bases of taste coding in invertebrates and vertebrates allows discussion of whether labelled-line or across-fibre pattern encoding applies to taste perception. While the former posits that each gustatory receptor responds to one stimulus or a very limited range of stimuli and sends a direct 'line' to the central nervous system to communicate taste information, the latter postulates that each gustatory receptor responds to a wider range of stimuli so that the entire population of taste-responsive neurons participates in the taste code. Tastes are represented in the brain of the fruitfly and of the rat by spatial patterns of neural activity containing both distinct and overlapping regions, which are in accord with both labelled-line and across-fibre pattern processing of taste, respectively. In both animal models, taste representations seem to relate to the hedonic value of the tastant (e.g. palatable versus non-palatable). Thus, although the labelled-line hypothesis can account for peripheral taste processing, central processing remains either unknown or differs from a pure labelled-line coding. The essential task for a neuroscience of taste is, therefore, to determine the connectivity of taste-processing circuits in central nervous systems. Such connectivity may determine coding strategies that differ significantly from both the labelled-line and the across-fibre pattern models.
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