Cortical hub for flavor sensation in rodents

CL Samuelsen, R Vincis - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The experience of eating is inherently multimodal, combining intraoral gustatory, olfactory,
and somatosensory signals into a single percept called flavor. As foods and beverages enter …

Multisensory integration of orally‐sourced gustatory and olfactory inputs to the posterior piriform cortex in awake rats

A Idris, BA Christensen, EM Walker… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flavour refers to the sensory experience of food, which is a combination of sensory inputs
sourced from multiple modalities during consumption, including taste and odour. Previous …

Adaptive weighting of taste and odor cues during flavor choice

JX Maier, VE Elliott - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Colloquially referred to as “taste,” flavor is in reality a thoroughly multisensory experience.
Yet, a mechanistic understanding of the multisensory computations underlying flavor …

Influence of aqueous yam extract and goat milk casein powder on the characteristics of goat Greek-style yogurt

RA dos Santos, R de Lima Rodrigues… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study proposed the production of goat Greek-style yogurt with added aqueous yam
extract and goat milk casein powder. Yam brings health benefits when consumed, as it is …

The effect of multisensory context and experience on flavor preference decisions in rats

A Hua, TV Dong, JX Maier - Physiology & Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Flavor is perceived through multiple senses, including gustation and olfaction. Previous
studies have shown that different sensory qualities that make up flavor are integrated to …

Taste enhances the ability to express a preference for a congruent odor in rats.

YJF Cai, IB Allar, JX Maier - Behavioral neuroscience, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Foods that make up a typical diet are characterized by a rich set of sensory qualities that are
perceived through multiple different modalities. It is well known that multisensory aspects of …

A Multi-sensory Kiosk Interface to Familiarize Users with New Foods

ES Choi, Y Kang - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Familiarity significantly impacts public willingness to try new foods, making novel foods
unlikely to be consumed. However, exposing eaters to various sensory modalities …

Taste-Odor Association Learning Alters the Dynamics of Intraoral Odor Responses in the Posterior Piriform Cortex of Awake Rats

JX Maier, A Idris, BA Christensen - eneuro, 2023 - eneuro.org
How an odor is perceived is to a large extent dependent on the context in which that odor is
(or has been) experienced. For example, experiencing an odor in mixture with taste during …

The role of viscosity in flavor preference: plasticity and interactions with taste

SE Colbert, CS Triplett, JX Maier - Chemical Senses, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The brain combines gustatory, olfactory, and somatosensory information to create our
perception of flavor. Within the somatosensory modality, texture attributes such as viscosity …

Binge Feeding Promotes Appetite via Modulating Olfactory Flavor Representation

MLS Tantirigama, A Schoenherr, L Moreno-Velasquez… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Binge eating commonly leads to overeating (;;;), but the exact mechanism is unclear. While it
is known that experiencing flavor contributes to satiety, the interactions between flavor …