Abuzar Mahmood

The paper identifies two distinct classes of gaping behavior in rats, showing they are driven by different mechanisms related to taste-specific and generalized aversion.

This paper investigates cortico-amygdalar interactions during taste processing in rats, finding asymmetric reciprocal influences and showing that amygdala-cortical loops drive taste encoding and decision-making.

The paper identifies ingestion-related behaviors and links them to neural dynamics in gustatory cortex using EMG and machine learning.

This study shows that illness alters sensory cortical responses to tastes in rats, reducing response magnitudes and changing coding strategies to reflect a 'good-bad' perception of palatability.