Narendra Mukherjee

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

The paper shows that perturbing BLA to GC projections alters GC taste response dynamics, specifically reducing palatability-related activity in the late epoch without affecting taste identity information.

The paper records spiking activity in mouse gustatory cortex during taste stimulation, finding temporal coding of taste identity and palatability and no anatomical taste specialization.

The paper shows that inhibiting gustatory cortex at specific times during taste trials delays gaping, indicating that ensemble dynamics drive motor behavior.

The paper investigates how incidental taste experience enhances later taste learning by identifying the gustatory cortex as a key neural site involved in this process.