NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Tasting Pictures: Viewing Images of Foods Evokes Taste-Quality-Specific Activity in Gustatory Insular Cortex
Jason A. Avery, Alexander Liu, John E. Ingeholm…·Alex D. Martin
The paper shows that viewing food pictures activates gustatory insular cortex in a taste-specific manner, but the neural patterns for pictures and actual tastes are distinct.