Tasting Pictures: Viewing Images of Foods Evokes Taste-Quality-Specific Activity in Gustatory Insular Cortex
Jason A. Avery, Alexander Liu, John E. Ingeholm, Stephen J. Gotts, Alex D. Martin
The paper shows that viewing food pictures activates gustatory insular cortex in a taste-specific manner, but the neural patterns for pictures and actual tastes are distinct.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Dec 31, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience