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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fonseca E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292697 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20181119
Sucrose's sweet intensity is one attribute contributing to the overconsumption of high-energy palatable foods. However, it is not known how sucrose intensity is encoded and used to make perceptual decisions by neurons in taste-sensitive cortices. We trained rats in a sucrose intensity discrimination task and found that sucrose evoked a widespread response in neurons recorded in posterior-Insula (pIC), anterior-Insula (aIC), and Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Remarkably, only a few Intensity-selecti ...[more]