Featured Paper of the Month – May 2015
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Kusumoto-Yoshida, Ikue; Liu, Haixin; Chen, Billy T; Fontanini, Alfredo; Bonci, Antonello
Reward-related circuits are fundamental for initiating feeding on the basis of food-predicting cues, whereas gustatory circuits are believed to be involved in the evaluation of food during consumption. However, accumulating evidence challenges such a rigid separation. The insular cortex (IC), an area largely studied in rodents for its role in taste processing, is involved in representing anticipatory cues…