Scholars have argued for centuries that affective states involve interoception, or
representations of the state of the body. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how …

Our wellness relies on continuous interactions between our brain and body: different organs
relay their current state to the brain and are regulated, in turn, by descending visceromotor …

Whenever food is placed in the mouth, taste receptors are stimulated. Simultaneously,
different types of sensory fibre that monitor several food attributes such as texture …

Animal models suggest that sucrose activates taste afferents differently than non-caloric
sweeteners. Little information exists how artificial sweeteners engage central taste pathways …

Although temporal coding is a frequent topic of neurophysiology research, trial-to-trial
variability in temporal codes is typically dismissed as noise and thought to play no role in …

Neuroscientists have long recognized the importance of understanding the underlying
principles of information processing by large populations of neurons. Methods for Neural …

All people share implicit map**s across the senses, which give us preferences for certain
sensory combinations over others (eg light colours are preferentially paired with higher-pitch …

Detection thresholds and psychophysical curves were established for caffeine, quinine-HCl
(QHCl), and propylthiouracil (PROP) in a sample of 33 subjects (28 female mean age 24±4) …

Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging
conversational style of the previous editions, the sixth edition of this introductory textbook …

Animals are not passive spectators of the sensory world in which they live. In natural
conditions they often sense objects on the bases of expectations initiated by predictive cues …