Gustation and Olfaction: The Importance of Place and Time.

Curr Biol

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:

Published: January 2019

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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