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A cortical basis for perception of internal gut sensations
Omer Rafael-Izhaki, Stav Shtiglitz, Juliet Miller…·Yoav Livneh
Mice can report optogenetic activation of vagal gut mechanosensory neurons; insular cortex encodes perceptual report and causally affects detection only in a difficult psychophysics task, not simple detection.