Representation of pleasant and aversive taste in the human brain.

@article{ODoherty2001RepresentationOP,
  title={Representation of pleasant and aversive taste in the human brain.},
  author={John P. O'Doherty and Edmund T. Rolls and Susan T. Francis and Richard Bowtell and Francis McGlone},
  journal={Journal of neurophysiology},
  year={2001},
  volume={85 3},
  pages={
          1315-21
        }
}
In this study, the representation of taste in the orbitofrontal cortex was investigated to determine whether or not a pleasant and an aversive taste have distinct or overlapping representations in this region. The pleasant stimulus used was sweet taste (1 M glucose), and the unpleasant stimulus was salt taste (0.1 M NaCl). We used an ON/OFF block design in a 3T fMRI scanner with a tasteless solution delivered in the OFF period to control for somatosensory or swallowing-related effects. It was… 
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