State Dependence of Olfactory Perception As a Function of Taste Cortical Inactivation

Overview

Journal Nat Neurosci

Date 2009 Dec 22

PMID 20023656

Citations 22

Authors

Yaihara Fortis-Santiago

Benjamin A Rodwin

Selin Neseliler

Caitlin E Piette

Donald B Katz

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Abstract

As anyone who has suffered through a head cold knows, food eaten when the olfactory system is impaired tastes 'wrong', an experience that leads many to conclude that taste stimuli are processed normally only when the olfactory system is unimpaired. Evidence that the taste system influences olfactory perception, however, has been vanishingly rare. We found just such an influence; if taste cortex was inactivated when an odor was first presented, later presentations were properly appreciated only if taste cortex was again inactivated.

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