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ArticleeLife2016

Associative learning changes cross-modal representations in the gustatory cortex.

Roberto Vincis, Alfredo Fontanini

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Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Roberto VincisDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5812-7624
Alfredo FontaniniDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4561-9563
State University of New York · US

Funding

Effects of expectation on gustatory cortical activityR01DC010389 · NIDCD · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI FONTANINI, ALFREDO · 2009 to 2014
$2.0M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC010389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that primary sensory cortices are not exclusively unimodal, but can respond to stimuli of different sensory modalities. However, several questions concerning the neural representation of cross-modal stimuli remain open. Indeed, it is poorly understood if cross-modal stimuli evoke unique or overlapping representations in a primary sensory cortex and whether learning can modulate these representations. Here we recorded single unit responses to auditory, visual, somatosensory, and olfactory stimuli in the gustatory cortex (GC) of alert rats before and after associative learning. We found that, in untrained rats, the majority of GC neurons were modulated by a single modality. Upon learning, both prevalence of cross-modal responsive neurons and their breadth of tuning increased, leading to a greater overlap of representations. Altogether, our results show that the gustatory cortex represents cross-modal stimuli according to their sensory identity, and that learning changes the overlap of cross-modal representations.

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LearningTaste PerceptionAnimalsConditioning, ClassicalRatsSomatosensory Cortexbehaviorelectrophysiologyexpectationgustatory cortexlearningmultimodalneurosciencerat

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PMID27572258
PMCPMC5026467
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