The pleasure of eating begins in the mouth, albeit extends far beyond it. The sensation that we know as taste involves an intricate system of nerves that relay information from the tongue’s taste buds ...

The perception of taste is not merely a matter of detecting a chemical stimulus; it involves a sophisticated network of neural circuits that integrate sensory inputs from taste receptors, olfactory ...

phenomenon doesn’t occur in the brain area involved in taste perception, as previously believed — this discovery could not only help us better understand our taste system, but also why people eat the ...

The paper K. Chen et al., “Spatially distributed representation of taste quality in the gustatory insular cortex of behaving mice,” Curr Biol, 31:247–256.e4, 2020. Sensory information is often mapped ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) get hungry? Develop a taste for certain foods? Not yet, but a team of researchers is developing a novel electronic tongue that mimics how taste influences what we eat ...

Gustatory rhinitis is the medical term for a runny nose or sneezing you may get after you eat hot or spicy foods. It's a type of nonallergic rhinitis, where your nose gets inflammation but not because ...