Gustation and Olfaction: The Importance of Place and Time

Lindsey Czarnecki; Alfredo Fontanini

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.038

Gustation and Olfaction: The Importance of Place and Time

Curr Biol. 2019 Jan 7;29(1):R18-R20. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.038.

Authors

Lindsey Czarnecki¹, Alfredo Fontanini²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA. Electronic address: lindsey.czarnecki@stonybrook.edu.
² Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA. Electronic address: alfredo.fontanini@stonybrook.edu.

Abstract

Animals can smell odors from the external environment or from their mouth via two routes: orthonasal and retronasal, respectively. Little is known about how the brain processes orthonasal and retronasal odors associated with taste, but a new study has revealed an important role for the gustatory cortex in such odor processing.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Mouth
Odorants*
Smell
Taste
Time Perception*

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