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Taste, olfactory, and food reward value processing in the brain
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Rolls, Edmund T. (2015) Taste, olfactory, and food reward value processing in the brain. Progress in Neurobiology, 127-128 . pp. 64-90. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.03.002 ISSN 0301-0082.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.03.002
Abstract
Complementary neuronal recordings in primates, and functional neuroimaging in humans, show that the primary taste cortex in the anterior insula provides separate and combined representations of the taste, temperature, and texture (including fat texture) of food in the mouth independently of hunger and thus of reward value and pleasantness. One synapse on, in a second tier of processing, in the orbitofrontal cortex, these sensory inputs are for some neurons combined by associative learning with olfactory and visual inputs, and these neurons encode food reward value on a continuous scale in that they only respond to food when hungry, and in that activations correlate linearly with subjective pleasantness. Cognitive factors, including word-level descriptions, and selective attention to affective value, modulate the representation of the reward value of taste and olfactory stimuli in the orbitofrontal cortex and a region to which it projects, the anterior cingulate cortex, a tertiary taste cortical area. The food reward representations formed in this way play an important role in the control of appetite, and food intake. Individual differences in these reward representations may contribute to obesity, and there are age-related differences in these value representations that shape the foods that people in different age groups find palatable. In a third tier of processing in medial prefrontal cortex area 10, decisions between stimuli of different reward value are taken, by attractor decision-making networks.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Progress in Neurobiology | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0301-0082 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2015 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 127-128 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 64-90 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.03.002 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
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