Title
Taste-related activity in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
Abstract
Taste remains one of the least-explored human senses. Cortical taste responses were investigated using neuroimaging in 40 subjects tasting a range of different taste stimuli compared to a neutral tasteless control. Activation was found in the anterior insula/frontal opercular taste cortex and caudal orbitofrontal cortex, both areas established as taste cortical areas by neuronal recordings in primates. A novel finding in this study was a highly significant response to taste in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This may reflect an effect of taste on cognitive processing to help optimise or modify behavioural strategies involved in executive control; or it could reflect the engagement of this region in attentional processing by a taste input.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.09.063
NeuroImage
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Taste,Dorsolateral,Orbitofrontal,Insula,fMRI
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1053-8119
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.08
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Morten L Kringelbach1405.32
Ivan E T de Araujo271.08
Edmund T. Rolls3375.03