John D. Boughter

The paper shows that gustatory cortex neurons in mice represent taste stimuli based on their palatability, with neural patterns reflecting consumption decisions after conditioned taste aversion.

This study examines how familiarity with taste stimuli affects population-level taste coding in mouse gustatory cortex, finding reduced active cells and increased response magnitude with experience.

The paper uses two-photon imaging to show that a specific gustatory cortex region contains overlapping representations of primary tastes and encodes both taste quality and hedonics.