Human gustation: when the brain has taste

Curr Biol. 2015 May 4;25(9):R381-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.002.

Abstract

What we put into our mouths can nourish or kill us. A new study uses state-of-the-art electroencephalogram decoding to detail how we and our brains know what we taste.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
  • Chemoreceptor Cells / physiology*
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Taste / physiology*
  • Taste Perception / physiology*