It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Complementary neuronal recordings and functional neuroimaging in humans, show that the
primary taste cortex in the anterior insula provides separate and combined representations …

Objective: Migraine patients have dysfunctional cortical olfactory processing and very often
report hypersensitivity and phobic symptoms to odors during acute headache attacks …

Abstract Patients with Tourette Syndrome often state that their sensitivity to sensations is
equally or more disruptive than are motor tics. However, their sensory sensitivity is not …

Food flavor, appearance, and texture are the sensory properties that influence food
acceptance, and among these, flavor is usually the decisive factor for the choice of a …

A comprehensive systems overview of sensory and reward processing in the brain, this book
explores what reward processing can teach us about the senses and what sensory …

BACKGROUND: Olfactory and gustatory distortions in the absence of odors or tastants
(phantosmia and phantageusia, respectively) with accompanying loss of smell and taste …

The brain areas that represent taste also provide a representation of oral texture. Fat texture
is represented by neurons independently of viscosity: some neurons respond to fat …

Olfactory impairment is a consistent premotor symptom in sporadic Parkinson's disease
(PD), presumably caused by pathological processes in the olfactory bulb and olfactory …

The difficulty of explaining sensory descriptors of virgin olive oil aroma by the analysis of
volatile compounds is partially due to the subjective opinions of panelists and the lack of …