The subjective nature of taste has made pinning down where this sense is processed in the brain difficult. But now researchers have finally homed in on the brain's "sweet spot," revealing the ...

The insular cortex, which separates the frontal and temporal lobes, has long been thought to be the primary sensory area for taste. It also plays a role in other important functions, including ...

After taste stimulation in the mouth, neurons project via brainstem and thalamus to the primary taste cortex, comprised of the insula, and from there to the ventral striatum, amygdala ...

[2] Dynamic Representation of Taste-Related Decisions in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Mice. Current Biology (2020). [3] State dependence of olfactory perception as a function of taste cortical ...

The image above is of the taste cortex (insula) of a mouse, with each of the color clumps representing one of four of the five primary tastes. Red is bitter, green is sweet, yellow is umami, and ...

They then traced the neural connections into the primary taste cortex in the brain – the insula. They observed that when a mouse is given something bitter to taste, or the receptors on its tongue that ...

The same influence of expectation on taste perception was evident when the subjects received the sugared water. "These data show that neural responses to taste in the primary taste cortex are ...

ABOVE: Distribution of the neurons responding to five gustatory stimuli (S: sucrose, N: NaCl, CA: citric acid, Q: quinine, W: water) KE CHEN, JOSHUA F. KOGAN, AND ALFREDO FONTANINI The paper K. Chen ...