ArticleCurrent opinion in physiology2021
Against gustotopic representation in the human brain: There is no Cartesian Restaurant.
Article in Current opinion in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- An insula hierarchical network architecture for active interoceptive inference.Royal Society open science · 2022Review
- Encoding Taste: From Receptors to Perception.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2022Article
- Neurosensory development of the four brainstem-projecting sensory systems and their integration in the telencephalon.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
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Abstract
The insular cortex is still one of the least understood cortical regions in the human brain. This review will highlight research on taste quality representation within the human insular cortex. Much of the controversy surrounding this topic is based in the ongoing debate over different theories of peripheral taste coding. When translated to the study of gustatory cortex, this has generated a distinct set of theoretical models, namely the
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