Relationship-specific Encoding of Social Touch in Somatosensory and Insular Cortices
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.015
Abstract: Humans use touch to maintain their social relationships, and the emotional qualities of touch depend on who touches whom. However, it is not known how affective and social dimensions of touch are processed in the… read more here.
Keywords: relationship specific; social touch; somatosensory; somatosensory insular ... See more keywords
Disconnection of the perirhinal and insular cortices severely disrupts taste neophobia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107324
Abstract: It is well known that the perirhinal (Prh) and insular (IC) cortices are reciprocally connected, mainly through ipsilateral projections. Although some studies have demonstrated that excitotoxic lesions to these regions, each separately, disrupt taste neophobia,… read more here.
Keywords: taste; disconnection perirhinal; group; taste neophobia ... See more keywords